p>Investors are ready for further flashes of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, while worries about the hawkishness of the Federal Reserve threaten to squelch market appetite for risk in all markets.</p><p>The volatility traditionally associated with cryptocurrencies is prominent in recent weeks. Bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency, is up by 33% in the past month since Jan. 24. It has been trading at $43,850, bouncing back from falling to a point that cut the price in half from November's record peak. Its primary rival, ether , has risen by around 40% since Jan. 24 at around $3,200 and has seen a nearly 56 percent drop from its record high of $4,868, that was in November.<img width="404" src="https://kryptomagazin.cz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bitcoin-historicky-graf.jpg"></p><p></p><p>Even though advocates of cryptocurrencies stated that they have no correlation to other assets bitcoin and its ilk experienced huge gains over the last two years, rallying along with stocks while the Fed or other central banks infused massive amounts of stimulus into the global economy. Bitcoin has increased by 1,039 percent from March 2020. ether has risen 2940%, however the rises of both currencies have been marred by numerous stomach churning sales.<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OfVumcKtpG8" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p></p><p>Their recent volatility has been accompanied by a wider market decline triggered by investors who are recalibrating their portfolios in preparation for an aggressive Fed, which is now anticipated to raise rates as high as seven times this year as it combats the escalating inflation. The most widely used S&P 500 index (.SPX) has dropped 5.5 percent over the past year, and the tech-driven Nasdaq (.IXIC) is down 9.3%. lost 9.3%.</p><p>Worries that an aggressive loosening and tightening cycles by central banks going forward could stifle more risky assets have made difficult for some traders to maintain their bullish outlook on bitcoin and the other cryptos and other asset classes, which are already that has been identified as being extremely volatile.</p><p></p><p>Rising tensions in Ukraine the country where Washington warned that a Russian invasion could be imminent at any time, may lead to market shifts in the future Investors have said. Learn more</p><p>Bitcoin could "really become the most powerful market for momentum trading and there are so many risk factors that could cause a 40% drop completely out of the blue," said Ed Moya, senior analyst at Oanda.</p><p>However, the volatility of Bitcoin isn't stopping some experts from trying to establish whether the currency is worth its value or to identify potentially significant price levels.</p><p>Analysts at JPMorgan believe that bitcoin's fair value as $38,000 , which is 15% lower than its current price , based upon its volatility in comparison with that for gold, another investment used by investors to protect their portfolios from fluctuations in the economy and inflation.</p><p>Vanda Research, meanwhile, said in a recent note that the bulk of bets that were speculative on a lower bitcoin price were made at around $47,000 "there might be a massive short-squeeze in the event that the threshold is exceeded, and retail investors return back to crypto-trading."</p><p>However, the correlations between Bitcoin as well as the S&P 500 rose to an all-time-high on January 31, according to data taken from BofA Global Research, undercutting the arguments for those looking to use the cryptocurrency as an asset to shield against market volatility.</p><p>Investors are expected next week to receive minutes of the Fed's last meeting on monetary policy due out on Wednesday. Walmart (WMT.N) as well as chipmaker Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) will be among the companies reporting resultsas earnings season kicks off.</p><p>Certain investors are bracing themselves to take on the volatility in bitcoin, assuming that the long-term benefit in blockchain technology its built-in supply limit and the effects the technology creates will continue to last despite the frequent price changes.</p><p>Jurrien Timmer director of macro-economics at Fidelity is comparing the current Bitcoin speculation to volatile tech stocks that were experiencing during the dot-com boom more than two decades ago. It was a boom and bust era that saw only an extremely small number of companies remaining.</p><p>"Amazon is still in existence and Apple continues to exist and they're both bigger than ever. we're thinking that for bitcoin it'll be exactly the same," The man said. "But http://www.docspal.com/viewer?id=- 's not immune to these waves of speculation or sentiment."</p><p>Bitcoin could hit the $100,000 mark by 2023, Timmer has said, in accordance with his supply/demand models.</p><p>Others believe that mature cryptos like bitcoin and ether will not be able for the kind of eye-watering gains they have notched since their creation.</p><p>Instead, they're looking at the possibilities of new, alternative coins that are being made to make the most of the wealth flowing into the cryptocurrency space such as the metaverse and NFTs. The latter saw $30 billion worth of venture capital investment last year, according to PitchBook?.</p><p>A few altcoins are cosmos Terra Luna, and Polkadot and are trading at around 20.5% 35.8%, 38.8% and 25.5 percent year-to-date, respectively, by coinmarketcap.com.</p><p>Understanding the risks related to their decentralized nature and financial systems is likely to be one of principal challenges facing investors in 2022, said Lily Francus, director of quantitative research strategy at Moody's Analytics.</p><p>Cryptocurrencies "are going to be extremely volatile in the coming years, but there are significant players on both the institutional and retail side that are still expanding, and so the interest is growing," said Oanda's Moya.</p>


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