Are tech stocks altcoins?
Not that we want to divert attention from the last 11 weeks of falling cryptocurrency prices, but looking at some tech stocks is bound to give us some philosophical perspective.
Below: Which one is the Altcoin and which is the tech stock?
Binance’s BNB token and Netflix are down 36.7% and 43.25% respectively since their all-time peak on the 8th and 9th of November 2021 . Which one has more underlying value?
According to Jurrien Timmer, Fidelity’s director of Global Macro, we’re on the correct side of the macroeconomics.
Nonetheless, the painful drop, which triggered the worst crypto sentiment in months, created close to $1 billion in leverage liquidations across the cryptocurrency markets, when Bitcoin fell below $40,000.
Bitcoin suffered from a 0.8 correlation with NASDAQ over the last 30 days ,as it did in March 2020, the last time the American stock market acknowledged gravity.
Since our last edition on January 10th, Bitcoin had a modest rise to $44,500, then drifted down for the next 6 days. On January 20th, after failing to breakout back above $45,500, Bitcoin reversed directions and dropped daily, hitting $32,940 on January 24th before recovering to $37,000 at the time of writing.
Sentiment is so negative, that even the funding (the price of going long on Bitcoin’s perpetual swap contract) is currently negative.
With the average holder closer to being underwater than anytime since April 2020, and with $2.8 billion of Bitcoin losses taken on January 21st, it’s not surprising.
On the positive side, sentiment doesn't have much lower to go, and… as you’ll read in the next section, the elites have got our back.
May the next weeks bring positivity and profit.
Western Elites have crypto’s back
Bitcoin and cryptos started out as anti-establishment technologies meant to protect money from harmful intervention by the powers that be. Has this ethos held up?
Bitcoin and its monetary policy remain decentralized, but it’s interesting to look at the amount of money pouring into crypto from our society's banking and government elites.
Below are some of the recent developments:
BlackRock is the planet’s largest asset manager, whose pedigree includes the execution of the Federal Reserve's policy and employing former central bankers. Last year they invested $384 million in a Bitcoin mining firm, recently in FTX’s series B round and last week filed Last week it filed for permission to run a “Blockchain and Tech” related ETF.
David Pakman ran Venrock, the VC arm of the mega-wealthy Rockefeller oil and banking fortune, for 13 year. Venrock partnered with CoinFund in 2018, and Pakman recently left Venrock to become a full time partner in CoinFund.
Famous for “breaking” the pound, George Soros, one of the most successful investors in history, is also known for his involvement in politics and for founding the ECFR. Recently his fund invested in NYDIG and Animoca Brands.
Katie Haun is a former federal prosecutor who worked on the Mt. Gox and Silk Road cases. A lifetime member of the mega influential CFR think tank, she became the first female partner of A16Z, heading their second crypto fund. This month Haun left A16Z to raise $900 million for her new Web3 fund.
What do you think? Is this the harbinger of a real paradigm shift? Are our elites trying to make Bitcoin and crypto part of the new establishment, or simply recognizing a good investment opportunity?
(Your opinions are welcome in the comments section below.)
News & links
New York’s new mayor takes first paycheck in Bitcoin and Ether. Rio de Janeiro to allocate 1% of treasury to cryptocurrency.
YouTube’s head of gaming leaves to join Polygon Studios as CEO
Singapore bans public advertising of cryptocurrency
BitMEX exchange buys German bank
Putin says Russia has an advantage in Bitcoin mining and should not ban it
Team update
This month we welcomed our first VP of People, Debbie Paz!
