Digital asset management company CoinShare’s chief strategist Meltem Demirors featured on CNBC’s Fast Money on Monday, where she discussed the problematic nature of judging Bitcoin on price alone.
Demirors offered that actual utilization may be a better alternative metric for institutional and retail investors to consider, which she put down as the real struggle right now. Although she said that it is not yet clear when or how Bitcoin may regain its value, the best way to predict this is by determining solid metrics that best fit Bitcoin.
The strategist noted that ”real traction” is imminent but a lot is relying on analysis to find the key metrics that will drive growth.
She compared cryptocurrency with similar innovative enterprises such as Intel, Amazon, and Microsoft in the early days of internet stocks, noting that it took Amazon nine years to recover from its initial price high during the dotcom bubble, Intel 15 years, and Microsoft 17 years.
Such as these early internet stocks, Demirors said that the real traction for Bitcoin will come with time. The late 2017 price run can be put down to “fear of mission out” (FOMO), which caused a similar type of speculative bubble, she said. With that bubble burst, real businesses with real-life use applications are being developed in the space.
As she put it: “New technologies that shift the paradigm take a long time to really understand.”
This goes to what she described as a key issue right now in the lack of a coherent narrative from the cryptocurrency community. With institutional interest in the space growing, Demirors said that this could well be an opportune time for Bitcoin, but it is not being considered a store of value because of the poorly-relayed narrative.
Bitcoin (BTC) currently sits at USD 6,038.18 after struggling this year to make significant gains compared with last years highs of nearly USD 20,000.
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