store of value
Crypto for Advisors: Bitcoin and Gold, Stores of Value
The approval of the bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs could represent a similar change in market to what central banks caused in gold markets post-2022 – a new factor that, at least temporarily, overwhelms traditional narratives, including the “store of value” concept.
Is Bitcoin Still a Store of Value?
It depends on what you're trying to protect that value from. Market meltdowns like Monday's? No. Confiscation or monetary inflation? Maybe.
Bitcoin’s 'Store-of-Value' Narrative Is Real but Not a Price Mover
Longer-term narratives matter, argues Noelle Acheson, but they don’t set the price. That is set by short-term sentiment, which is both contagious and fickle.
Evaluating Bitcoin as a Store of Value
Two on-chain metrics, realized capitalization and holding trends, demonstrate belief in bitcoin as a store of value (SoV).
What Bitcoin’s Inflation Hedge Narrative Needs: More Time
Whether or not Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are long-term inflation hedges and a store of value or simply a “risk-on” speculative assets preferred in times when bond yields are unattractive is yet to be perfectly understood.
Veteran Trader Peter Brandt on Crypto Market Crash: 'Greed Puts in Top, Fear Puts in Bottom'
Veteran futures forex trader Peter Brandt, who correctly predicted bitcoin's steep price correction in 2018, discusses his optimistic take on the latest crypto market crash. "So what that we have a 50% correction? ... Greed puts in tops, fear puts in bottom," Brandt said. "This decline in bitcoin is really nothing to panic about." Plus, short-term price forecasts for BTC, the correlation between BTC and stocks, BTC as a store of value, the outlook for gold, and more.
ETH: Technology Play or Store of Value? A CoinDesk Research Report
CoinDesk Research looks at the different value propositions of BTC and ETH, how they overlap and how they could evolve.
