Several weeks have passed since the Bitcoin Halvening. Weeks in which large parts of the market have been relatively quiet. Hardly any major cryptocurrency today differs from its position on May 9th, two days before the halving. Compared to mid-February and mid-March, however, a clear difference can be seen in the performance of individual projects during the Corona crisis. This article attempts to get to the bottom of this phenomenon and to draw parallels to the halving of 2016.

In an economic expansion, small firms tend to have better returns than large firms. In an economic recession, the reverse tends to be true: large firms tend to outperform small firms. This is because in an expansion, fiat inflation pushes investors into increasingly risky investments, but during a downturn, investors seek conservative safe havens to store their wealth.

For example, the small-cap Russell 2000 index dropped 38.6% between February 19th and March 17th, when the S&P 500 large-cap index was only down 29.5%.

A similar pattern may exist with cryptocurrencies.

When the global economy is in an expansionary period caused by easy credit lending policies, diversification into alt-coins tends to outperform Bitcoin. However, when the global economy is hit hard, Bitcoin tends to outperform a diversified portfolio of alt-coins. For example, trading volumes of the altcoins in the Top 10 on Coinmarketcap.com decreased by 30% between March 6th and April 1st, while Bitcoin’s trading volume didn’t decrease at all.

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