CORRECTION (Oct. 14, 2020, 04:25 UTC):Â This article originally said Fidelity recommended that portfolios consider a 5% allocation in bitcoin. The language used was a hypothetical. CoinDesk regrets the error.
Fidelity Digital Assets said bitcoinâs market cap has plenty of room to grow in a Tuesday report on the benchmark cryptocurrencyâs uncorrelated nature.
- Director of Research Ria Bhutoria wrote that the cryptoâs current market capitalization âis a drop in the bucket compared with markets bitcoin could disrupt.â
- Bhutoria argued that while institutional inflows may damp bitcoinâs uncorrelated performance, the crypto is âfundamentally less exposedâ to the âeconomic headwindsâ that other assets will likely face.
- Bitcoin is therefore a âpotentially usefulâ asset for uncorrelated return-seeking investors.
- âIn a world where benchmark interest rates globally are near, at, or below zero, the opportunity cost of not allocating to bitcoin is higher," the report said.