A well-liked crypto analyst thinks Ethereum (ETH) must endure some “ache” earlier than rebounding.
In a brand new YouTube video, Benjamin Cowen tells his 886,000 subscribers that there in all probability must be a change in financial coverage to ensure that ETH’s chart towards Bitcoin (BTC) to backside.
“However with a purpose to have a change in financial coverage, you need to have ache. Welcome to the ache. That is the ache that you simply finally want. Bear in mind final cycle [in 2019], ETH/Bitcoin bottomed after ETH/USD broke assist.”
Cowen notes that ETH fell under its assist stage towards the US greenback in 2019 proper earlier than the Federal Reserve ended quantitative tightening.
The analyst says that all the things that occurred within the earlier cycle is “principally taking place this cycle, it’s simply happening on an extended timeframe.” Cowen additionally notes that a lot of the value factors of the present cycle are roughly 10x what they had been within the 2019 market.
“The rationale why persons are having a tough time navigating this cycle and why it feels so completely different is as a result of financial coverage by no means modified this cycle. Within the final cycle, we noticed a change in financial coverage within the pre-halving 12 months. We’re now within the post-halving 12 months and we nonetheless haven’t seen a change to the quantitative tightening. We’ve seen them taper it just a little bit. They’ve slowed it down, however they’ve by no means really stopped it.”
ETH is buying and selling at $1,907 at time of writing. The second-ranked crypto asset by market cap is down greater than 1% up to now 24 hours.
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