Intently adopted crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen says {that a} shift in financial coverage will more than likely be what lastly triggers an “altseason,” or a interval the place altcoins vastly outperform Bitcoin (BTC).
In a brand new technique session, Cowen overlays the Fed steadiness sheet with Ethereum (ETH) versus Bitcoin (ETH/BTC) and notes that in earlier market cycles, altseasons didn’t kick off till the Fed ended quantitative tightening (QT) and elevated the property on its steadiness sheet.
“What allowed for [the forecast] was simply the understanding of tighter financial coverage, and understanding that final cycle we didn’t see ETH/BTC backside or the inverse of that high, we didn’t see the BTC/ETH valuation high till the Fed ended quantitative tightening…
And so, you’ll be able to see that the Fed has been doing the identical actual factor this cycle and all through this course of similar to final cycle, ETH has misplaced worth to Bitcoin. Now the identical may very well be mentioned about lots of altcoins…
And in reality, in the event you take a look at a basket of alts, you’ll be able to see that the truth is, they’ve put in new lows this week, and my argument has at all times been, that they are going to probably finally go to the vary low earlier than there’s actually an incredible hope of any altseason with the ability to happen. You would additionally take a look at OTHERS/BTC, and see that it has simply dropped since 2022 started.
There’s lots of people who name this the ‘memecoin supercycle’ and so they attempt to get you pumped up for alteason and saying that these memecoins are going to outperform, however on the finish of the day they simply maintain bleeding out to Bitcoin.”

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