2/14/22, 10:43 AM Investors underestimate Bitcoin's "huge upside potential", Fidelity researcher says

MARCO CASTROVILLI FEB 12, 2022

Investors underestimate Bitcoin's "huge upside potential", Fidelity

researcher says
Head of Research at Fidelity Digital Asset is convinced Bitcoin's value proposition as a
decentralized and censorship-resistant monetary network sets it apart from other
cryptocurrencies.

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Why Bitcoin still has huge upside potential | Fidelity researcher explains

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Chris Kuiper, Head of Research at Fidelity Digital Assets, is convinced that Bitcoin (BTC) should be
treated separately from other digital assets and believes it plays an exclusive role in investors’
portfolios. 

Fidelity Digital Assets' latest report, titled Bitcoin First, targets two main concerns that Fidelity’s
clients have raised towards BTC — eventually being replaced by some other cryptocurrencies
and lower upside potential left compared to other coins.
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Investors underestimate Bitcoin's "huge upside potential", Fidelity researcher says

According to Kuiper, BTC offers a unique value proposition as the most decentralized and
censorship-resistant monetary network. That, according to him, is a non-incremental sort of
innovation similar to the invention of the wheel.
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“You can't reinvent something that's already been invented in terms of the most secure, most
decentralized and what we consider as the best monetary good in the digital asset space,” he
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While other cryptocurrencies may have higher upside potential, as Kuiper pointed out, they are
also subjected to higher risks and should be regarded more like venture capital bets. 

Kuiper believes that regardless of the future development of the blockchain ecosystem, BTC is
likely to come out as a winner. In a multi-chain scenario, where multiple blockchains will be
coexisting, Bitcoin will be still the main “money anchor” for other digital assets.

“At the end of the day, the thing that gives these other tokens or projects value is that they can
somehow tie back to bitcoin, either be converted back to Bitcoin,” he explained. 

In the case of a winner-takes-all scenario, Kuiper thinks BTC will likely be the go-to protocol for
building most blockchain applications. 

Kuiper also points out that BTC's thirteen years of existence have significantly reduced the
downside risks predominantly tied to BTC investments. On the other hand, its upside potential
may still be significant, especially in case it will gradually replace gold as a store of value.

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