Pantera Capital CEO: Bitcoin Has Only Been This “Cheap” 20% Of The Last 11 Years

The Pantera boss cited three primary reasons why crypto markets dumped a trillion dollars in market cap. The chief executive of Pantera Capital, Dan Morehead, is confident that the big crypto selloff is slowing because he thinks “we’ve seen the most of this panic”.In the monthly newsletter published on June 14, the venture capitalist stated that the best time to buy is when markets are “well below trend”. A Bitcoin trend deviation chart backed up this claim as it showed that the asset has only been this “cheap” relative to its trend for a fifth of its lifecycle.For new investors, it’s best....

Investment firms Fortress Investment Group (FIG), Benchmark Capital and Ribbit Capital have teamed up with Pantera Capital to launch a bitcoin investment fund. The new fund will be known as Pantera Bitcoin Partners LLC and, as the name implies, it will be controlled by Pantera. Fortress, Ribbit Capital and Benchmark Capital will be minority equity partners. Fortress became the first Wall Street investment firm to enter the bitcoin space. Last year it was rumoured to be acquiring bitcoins and a regulatory filing published in February revealed it had set aside $20m for bitcoin investments in....

New reports are indicating that some well-known investment firms are teaming up to form a fund that focuses on digital currencies, namely bitcoin. Fortress Investment Group, Ribbit Capital, and Benchmark Capital are joining Pantera Capital to form a new venture dubbed Pantera Bitcoin Partners, LLC. The move comes not long following news that Fortress' stash of bitcoin has lost a significant amount of value. It also highlights the closing gap between the bitcoin ecosystem and Wall Street. "We're very excited about the promise of Bitcoin and how it can transform the way we move money," said....

“We want to provide liquidity for people that are kind of giving up because we’re still very bullish for the next 10 or 20 years,” said CEO Dan Morehead. Dan Morehead, founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, reportedly said the hedge fund was planning to raise $1.25 billion for a second blockchain fund.According to a Sept. 28 Bloomberg report, Morehead said Pantera aimed to close the blockchain fund by May. The fund will reportedly invest in digital tokens and equity in an effort to appeal to institutional investors.“We want to provide liquidity for people that are kind of giving up because....

Despite the recent slump, Pantera believes that most of the growth in the next bull cycle will be generated by DeFi. In an October 6 webinar, Pantera Capital disclosed that their Digital Asset Fund intends to invest more heavily into DeFi assets than the rest of the market. Source: Pantera Capital.Pantera’s co-chief investment officer, Joey Krug said that unlike other funds that allocate most of their portfolios to stores of value like Bitcoin (BTC), his company is prepared to place its primary bet on DeFi:“And so if you look at portfolio construction, we can see that relative to the....