Bitcoin is now seen as a Safe Haven asset as declared by Rhythm Technologies' Chief Marketing Officer, Chris Reinertsen.
Safe Haven assets are assets where investors place their money during rising global uncertainties in their desire to flee risky assets like stocks. US Treasuries, gold, and the Swiss Franc belong to the ranks of Safe Haven assets.
Weeks into the U.S.-China Trade War, Bitcoin seem to have joined these assets. In a statement, Reinertsen had this to say:
“The devaluation of China’s Yuan has just hit an 11-year low against the dollar...There is a flight of capital to safe-haven assets across the board, which now includes Bitcoin. Throughout the last few years, we have been seeing the trend of Bitcoin increasingly becoming fundamentally correlated to more macro moves as increased economic uncertainty in the world increases.”
OpenLTV CEO, Kirill Bensonoff had agreed to Reinertsen:
“I believe that Bitcoin is becoming a "safe haven" asset similar to gold,”
He adds that he saw a major market downturn the other day, as Bitcoin rallied. Bensonoff believes that the market will be seeing more capital flight to Bitcoin moving forward.
However, other maintain a conservative look at the matter. Keith Hilden, Founder of Relex Capital, believes that Bitcoin's spike may just well be an act of "speculation", given that markets always try to find their equilibrium point.
Hilden had this to say:
“The recent devaluation by China's PBOC has shown the willingness to act in order to normalize external economic pressures impacting its economy, yet the tremors of such a Forex move was felt in equity and currency markets around the world-- with the coming aftershocks yet to have occurred,”
Hilden states further that economic energy expended by way of markets looking to regain equilibrium is not harnessed. He recognizes that it is instead lost to speculation and in turn causes economic flashpoints until everything normalizes again.
Despite varying opinions that seem to tempt the investor to make a move on Bitcoin, it would be advisable to keep their excitement in check and think twice before storing their money in assets with great volatility like Bitcoin.
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