Institutions taking profits and rising interest rates have pushed bitcoin down in the past week, said the Director of Research at Forbes Crypto – Steven Ehrlich.
Simultaneously, he outlined Ethereum’s growing adoption among institutions and the role it plays behind DeFi and NFT as the main reasons why ETH has outperformed BTC last year and continues to do so in 2021.
Bitcoin’s Run Is in Exhaustion Phase
Ever since October 2020, the primary cryptocurrency has been on a roll that saw its price expand by roughly six-fold to a new all-time high record registered in mid-March at $61,800. Year-to-date alone, BTC is up by approximately 80%.
However, this impressive run seems paused at the moment, as bitcoin has lost about $10,000 of value and even came close to breaking below $50,000 yesterday.
The Director of Research at Forbes Crypto touched upon BTC’s ongoing cycle and said that the asset could be in somewhat of an “exhaustion” phase. He believes that some of the institutional

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