Bitcoin to make new all-time-highs within 24 months: Coinshares CSO

cointelegraph.com:

Bitcoin (BTC) may have further to fall, but Coinshares chief strategy officer Meltem Demirors believes the top cryptocurrency will reach new all-time highs within the next 24 months.

Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box on July 11, Demirors noted that Bitcoin has always been a “cyclical asset” with drawdowns from peak to trough at 80 to 90% historically.

With Bitcoin currently sitting at about 65% down from its all-time highs in November 2021, Demirors believes “there is still room for some downward correction.”

However Demirors noted there has been strong support around $20,000 and that she did not expect Bitcoin to fall below $14,000. She predicted the pain would be a distant memory by 2024, saying:

Bitcoin is currently priced at $19,401, down 2% in 24 hours and down 72% from its all-time high.

A reversal may be some time off however, given Demirors can see “no near upside catalysts” — which could signal more pain in store for weaker crypto projects.

“We obviously had a lot of liquidations, a lot of insolvencies that had a massive impact on the market. [...] We're talking about $10, $20, $30 billion of capital that has basically evaporated overnight.”

Demiror said she expected a large number of crypto assets to be wiped out during the bear market, similar to what has been seen in tech stocks.

“There's a very long, long tail of crypto assets that I think will go to zero, that doesn't really have any long-term prospect as we've seen with so many tech stocks as well.”

Louis Schoeman, managing director at broker comparison site Forex Suggest, has a similar view and in a recent 9News report predicted that the current crypto downturn could kill off as much as 90 percent of all crypto projects.

"This is a cleansing process," Schoeman