After the crude oil price crashed earlier this week, Bitcoin first retreated below $7,000 but on Thursday it surged back to $7,800, showing that it had fully recovered from the March 12 collapse.
Now, as new forecasts for major assets have started coming in, earlier expectations that Bitcoin's inflation will be lower than gold's after the halving are getting confirmed. Besides, data shows that after the oil price crash, investors could be rushing from traditional assets to BTC.
Bitcoin inflation about to drop below gold's
Investor and an Electric Capital co-founder Avichal Garg has shared a chart on his Twitter page which shows that as of May this year, the annual inflation rate of Bitcoin is going to be less than gold’s.
The Bitcoin halving, which is due in less than twenty days, is going to reduce BTC inflation again by cutting the newly produced supply of coins in half.
Fun fact: As of May 2020, Bitcoin's inflation rate will be lower than Gold's.
— Avichal Garg (Electric Capital) ⚡ (@avichal) April 23, 2020
Bitcoin annual inflation: 1.8%
Gold annual inflation: ~2.5%#Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/kHTnjzjg0q
Recently, the creator of stock-to-flow analysis, trader ‘Plan B’, tweeted that BTC priced in gold had hit the biggest low since 2017. As per the stock-to-flow scheme, gold will go down in price soon unless BTC sees a rally after the halving on May 18, provided this model actually works.
New investors might be grabbing Bitcoin as a hedge
Glassnode has shared a chart, which could mean that after the recent oil price crash, new investors are starting to use Bitcoin as a hedge against conventional assets.
The data shows that the amount of active entities in the BTC network has surged.
As "safe haven" assets such as oil plummet in price, the number of active entities in the #Bitcoin network has spiked.
— glassnode (@glassnode) April 23, 2020
Are new investors are looking to $BTC as a hedge against traditional financial markets?
Read more in the latest Week On–Chain ?https://t.co/t1jhM44F0Z pic.twitter.com/gI9fWYko2R
Data from Glassnode also shows that the active supply of Bitcoin has reached a six-month high. This means that holders have become more active in moving their coins. The high amounts to 2,073,717.362 BTC.
Also, the number of Bitcoin wallets holding more than 0.1 BTC has also increased, reaching an all-time high of 3,005,057.000.
? #Bitcoin $BTC Number of Addresses holding 0.1+ coins just reached an ATH of 3,005,057.000
— glassnode alerts (@glassnodealerts) April 24, 2020
Previous ATH of 3,003,268.000 was observed on 22 April 2020
View metric:https://t.co/hZY8dBLpzX pic.twitter.com/qeJumXzbie
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