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Bitcoin Will Reach $200K in Second Half of 2022, FSInsight Says
Ether could reach $12,000, the report said.
By Will Canny
Updated Apr 9, 2024, 11:08 p.m. Published Feb 7, 2022, 12:33 p.m.
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Bitcoin became increasingly correlated with equities toward the end of the fourth quarter of last year and fell when faced with the prospect of central bank tightening, FSInsight said in a note entitled “Digital Assets in a Post-Cycle World.”
- The correlation has become more pronounced with bitcoin and the wider crypto market now being strongly correlated with technology stocks because of “legacy market capital entering the fold,” Sean Farrell, head of digital asset strategy, wrote in the note on Friday.
- However, bitcoin is still king, Farrell wrote, adding that the crypto could reach $200,000 in the second half of the year, following a choppy start to 2022.
- FSInsight also said that decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other Web 3 applications have driven massive growth of the Ethereum network.
- Ethereum is undervalued relative to cloud platforms, and ether, which is the native token of the network, could reach $12,000 in 2022, the report said.
- There is optimism surrounding Ethereum's transition to proof-of-stake in 2022, which if it happens, would likely result in capital inflows irrespective of bitcoin performance, the note added.
- Bitcoin was trading at $42,750, and ether at $3,068 as of publication time.
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CORRECTION (Feb 7, 13:40 UTC): Corrects headline to say $200,000 not $20,000.
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