{"id":30081,"date":"2020-10-14T12:39:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T09:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30081"},"modified":"2025-08-27T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:27:11","slug":"fidelity-outlines-conditions-for-bitcoins-market-capitalization-to-reach-500-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/fidelity-outlines-conditions-for-bitcoins-market-capitalization-to-reach-500-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidelity outlines conditions for Bitcoin&#8217;s market capitalization to reach $500 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin&#8217;s current market capitalization is a drop in the ocean relative to the markets it could influence. However, institutional investors could push this figure to $500 billion. This is according to a new study by Fidelity Investments.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Bitcoin Alternative Investment on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/479998635\/Bitcoin-Alternative-Investment#from_embed\">Bitcoin Alternative Investment<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View ForkLog's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/456422024\/ForkLog#from_embed\">ForkLog<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_40862\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Bitcoin Alternative Investment\" src=\"https:\/\/ru.scribd.com\/embeds\/479998635\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-k0FeG4zu39xKQhfCDPuG\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ria Butoriya, director of research, noted that the influx of institutional investors could strengthen the linkage between cryptocurrencies and traditional markets, although they are inherently uncorrelated.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts believe that, fundamentally, digital assets are less vulnerable to economic headwinds. In a world where interest rates are near zero, Bitcoin is a \u2018potentially useful\u2019 asset.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe risks of not including Bitcoin in a portfolio today are higher than the risk of missing this opportunity,\u201d Fidelity notes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Butoriya, shifting just 1% of the $50 trillion bond market into the crypto market could push Bitcoin&#8217;s market capitalization to $500 billion. The analyst also considers a scenario where the market cap of the leading cryptocurrency rises to $1.3 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Fidelity acknowledged that today the cryptocurrency market is predominantly driven by retail investors, for whom high volatility of digital assets is less critical.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, Bitcoin&#8217;s market capitalization stood at $211 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in July, Fidelity Investments <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/fidelity-investments-calls-bitcoin-a-store-of-value-and-a-hedge-against-financial-system-risks\">called<\/a> Bitcoin a store of value and a hedge against problems in the financial system.<\/p>\n<p>A June survey by the company found that one in three institutional investors owns Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin&#8217;s current market capitalization is a drop in the ocean relative to the markets it could influence. However, institutional investors could push this figure to $500 billion, according to a new Fidelity Investments study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1248,1156],"class_list":["post-30081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-fidelity-investments","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30083,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30081\/revisions\/30083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}