Needham Raises Bitcoin Price Target To $848: Here's Why
With bitcoin breaking out of its recent trading range as Chinese buyers once again flock to the currency as the Yuan slides (as we predicted over a year ago they would), even Wall Street analysts are starting to pay attention, and in a recent report by Needham's Spencer Bogart, the analyst has raised his price target on the digital currency from $655 to $848, due to "1) adoption trending faster than we forecasted in March, 2) improving fundamentals, and 3) upcoming protocol improvements that present attractive optionality for the price of Bitcoin. At the highest level, we continue to see value in Bitcoin as a "digital gold" and as a payment network that is enabling a global, open, permissionless financial system."
Wait, bitcoin has fundamentals? Why yes, and here is Needham's extensive breakdown for why bitcoin is set to rise substantially higher, but first, the Investment Thesis.
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Bitcoin is a decentralized, borderless, peer-to-peer, electronic cash system that is disintermediating and removing friction in the exchange of value by enabling fast, low-cost, global, peer-to-peer payments.
Similar to how the internet created a global open network for the exchange of information, so too is Bitcoin and its underlying “blockchain” technology enabling an open and global network for the exchange of value. For reasons addressed in this report, we see Bitcoin and its underlying technology as among the most significant innovations in payments and money in recent history.
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