{"id":88308,"date":"2023-12-15T14:02:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88308"},"modified":"2025-09-13T17:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:13:17","slug":"analysts-see-potential-for-growth-in-bitcoin-protocols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/analysts-see-potential-for-growth-in-bitcoin-protocols\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysts see potential for growth in Bitcoin protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the ecosystem of the first cryptocurrency continues to expand, demand growth could push Bitcoin to an <span data-descr=\"historical maximum\" class=\"old_tooltip\">ATH<\/span> of around $100,000 in the forthcoming bull market. This is stated in a Bitget Research report obtained by ForkLog.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cGiven the future macroeconomic conditions and market state, the Bitcoin network presents a promising outlook. Not only popular cryptocurrencies, such as BTC and ORDI, have significant potential for price growth, but the ecosystem itself will also present new opportunities to create 100x coins,\u201d the experts said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite a sharp rise in trading volume on the Bitcoin-<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-nfts\">NFT<\/a> market, its current scale remains relatively small, analysts note. This condition suggests potential for more than a hundredfold growth of the sector in the future.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bitget&#8217;s forecasts, in the next bull cycle, as the leading coin of the digital-gold ecosystem, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ordi-meme-token-up-45-in-24-hours-market-cap-tops-1-2-billion\">ORDI<\/a> will enter the top-30 by market capitalization.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the meme token&#8217;s market cap stands at over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/ru\/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%82%D1%8B\/ordi\">$1.27 billion<\/a>, while daily trading volume has also surpassed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/ru\/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%82%D1%8B\/ordi\">$1.2 billion<\/a>. The asset&#8217;s price is around $61, having risen about 180% over the month.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-eu.googleusercontent.com\/WZyFFmJdyPF4L6wa_FS_tdR09Xjqy3Xg-oorkzJBjRTE_s29HWeA7u5aDAVIuZgrqLH_r456Z3V1oNLBe-FdlFaMbkk9o6BNqrRPgduXu8WmGmZV6WaswQUecAuJ5U-59ssxuaRm9Y6ZE0SIlHFPSs8\" alt=\"Analysts see potential for growth in Bitcoin protocols\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hourly chart ORDI\/USDT on Binance. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.tradingview.com\/symbols\/ORDIUSDT\/?exchange=BINANCE\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Protocols <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-ordinals-and-brc-20-tokens\">Ordinals<\/a>, Atomicals, or Taproot Assets also expect possible expansion and growth, analysts added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the dashboard <a href=\"https:\/\/dune.com\/dgtl_assets\/bitcoin-ordinals-analysis\">Dune<\/a>, in recent months the number of daily inscriptions created on average exceeds 100,000.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-eu.googleusercontent.com\/Zyni-En-t_vmmZGelVMjl33SMuWmLB7SXWdZtUwDAW-TuP9rXGykMMef6I6isKN0tDJRVqj575U67BrchowAXrkNMPExxIqnYj2pExifIg_GYsCfrKlWThg05dzYIsskAtdDaAB4ew6piWKr6HFQJEU\" alt=\"Volume of inscriptions created.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Volume of inscriptions created. Data: Dune.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To date, almost 48 million Bitcoin-NFTs have been issued in total, for which about $157 million has been spent in fees.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIn the short term, the blockchain will retain the status \u2018one project \u2014 one protocol solution\u2019, fostering project diversity. A Bitcoin Virtual Machine is likely to emerge in the ecosystem,\u201d Bitget concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moreover, the Ordinals launch has significantly improved miners&#8217; position over the last three months, experts added. The share of protocol revenues rose from 1.7% in August to a peak of 19.57% in November.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cHowever, Ordinals, offering new capabilities for the network, brings with it issues. The platform operates by embedding data in individual transactions, occupying significant space in blocks and increasing the difficulty of using the blockchain,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bitget also believes that the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/lightning-network-faster-cheaper-bitcoin-transactions\">Lightning Network<\/a> could become the \u201cmain technological backbone\u201d for broad Bitcoin payments adoption, thanks to near-instant transfers and the ability to make microtransactions.<\/p>\n<p>However, creating and maintaining channels on the Lightning Network is more complex than transacting on the main network, which raises the initial barrier to entry for users.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the experts highlighted two problems facing the Bitcoin ecosystem that could slow its development. First, limited scalability of the network hampers the deployment of applications, creating bottlenecks and potentially affecting overall growth.<\/p>\n<p>Second, Bitcoin Core developers are mostly conservative and skeptical of non-standard protocols.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, one of Bitcoin pioneers Luke Dash \u2014 the younger <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-inscriptions-added-to-the-us-national-vulnerability-database\">criticised<\/a> Ordinals for cluttering the network and called for censorship of BRC-20 transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in December, the U.S. National Vulnerability Database <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-inscriptions-added-to-the-us-national-vulnerability-database\">tagged<\/a> the inscriptions created in the protocol as a cybersecurity threat to the Bitcoin blockchain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Bitcoin ecosystem continues to expand, demand growth could push Bitcoin to an ATH around $100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1222,1150,1176],"class_list":["post-88308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitget","tag-news-plus","tag-ordinals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88308","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=88308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88310,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88308\/revisions\/88310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}