{"id":423871,"date":"2020-05-14T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=423871"},"modified":"2024-06-11T13:48:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:48:44","slug":"no-guarantee-of-bitcoin-price-growing-after-halving-warns-ing-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/no-guarantee-of-bitcoin-price-growing-after-halving-warns-ing-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"No Guarantee of Bitcoin Price Growing after Halving, Warns ING Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"
For many Bitcoin enthusiasts, “halving<\/a>” has set the cryptocurrency on the course of hitting the $100,000-mark. But a digital finance veteran disagrees with the euphoria.<\/p>\n ING Economist Carlo Cocuzzo said in a podcast interview<\/a> Thursday that bitcoin’s quadrennial event does not guarantee a big upside move. He cited the cryptocurrency’s limited supply cap of 21 million tokens as the barrier standing between it and its higher price targets.<\/p>\n <\/iframe><\/p>\n The Bitcoin blockchain requires miners to offer computational powers to add and manage transactions on its decentralized ledger. In return, the network gives miners rewards in newly-minted BTC tokens. The winners sell the newly accumulated prizes in the spot market to cover their operational costs.<\/p>\n But BTC rewards keep getting reduced by half every four years to keep the inflation in check. That said, miners provide the same or more computational power to the Bitcoin network, but their probability of winning BTC goes down severely<\/a>.<\/p>\n Over time, the people who invest large capitals in machines to mine on the Bitcoin ledger would see their BTC rewards diminishing, asserted Mr. Cocuzzo. He added that “at one point, the rewards will just stop,” leaving miners with no returns on their investments.<\/p>\n Mr. Cocuzzo’s statements appeared even as two of Bitcoin’s previous halvings have followed elaborated price runs. The second supply rate cut in 2016, for instance, resulted in a massive bull run that took the cryptocurrency’s price up from below $500 to as high as $20,000.<\/p>\nThe Next Demand Narrative<\/h2>\n