How the Coronavirus Crisis Accelerated the Adoption of Bitcoin (webinar)

Stefano Gianti
Swissquote
Published in
4 min readFeb 19, 2021

“How the Coronavirus Crisis Accelerated the Adoption of Bitcoin” is a webinar organized by Swissquote Bank with the 21Shares team. 21Shares is the world’s first digital asset, ETP issuer.

The combination of two investor-oriented entities has made this webinar a beneficial watch for investors who are looking to explore the feasibility of investing in the Bitcoin market. This webinar assesses the possible returns based on an in-depth analysis of an investment strategy that focuses on Bitcoin stocks and their performance over the last year.

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This hourlong webinar is comprehensively focused on helping the viewer understand all the multiple aspects of a portfolio strategy that targets investments in Bitcoin options. The webinar focused on explaining why we can invest in the Bitcoin bubble, why we should go for investing with the 21Shares team, and why, as investors, we should opt-in on this phenomenon right now to benefit from the Bitcoin boom that is taking place. The presentation covers how Bitcoin investors have made money and why it is essential to invest in Bitcoin even while the global economy inches towards post lockdown recovery and growth.

The webinar also runs through a lot of data that shows how the Bitcoin market shows steady growth that is becoming comparable to that of gold. This growth is particularly true after the gold scandal of China in 2020. This scandal has highlighted how gold can be misused and is a riskier commodity in some ways when compared to Bitcoin.

While we have done our best to summarize this information-packed hour into this article, to get the most of it, watch the entire webinar here:

If you want to read on, the critical points of the webinar are mentioned below.

The webinar’s focus is on the risk and returns on Bitcoin and blockchain performance over the long run and how trading in Bitcoin can affect portfolio returns for the better.

As an investor, understanding how the market works in favor of Bitcoin prices and performance is fundamental.

The concepts are developed through graphs and charts to show how Bitcoin has shown strong performance and retains its momentum, even as the stock markets start to show some recovery.

2020 saw interest in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency snowball as they outperformed the S&P 500 and other benchmarks by a considerable margin. As the pandemic related recovery sustains and the recovery seems to be promising. The seminar clarifies some myths by showing just how much of Bitcoin is highly liquid, how much is entirely illiquid, being held by long term investors to make gains on at the appropriate time.

The webinar explains how and why Bitcoin is retaining its growth momentum and explains why adding Bitcoin stocks to a portfolio makes investment sense. Many institutions are now adopting Bitcoin as an investment option. Bitcoin is rightly being called the digital version of gold due to the ease of investing in it, the fact that it is relatively tamper-proof. The fraud resistance that it offers when compared to gold, are also a strong pitching point for institutional investors.

The European market is both broad and deep. It is moving towards an orientation towards a reliable option to invest in crypto and Bitcoin assets to cash in on the expected growth over the long term.

This interest has broadened to include robust Bitcoin options like DeFi and Web 3.0. The upcoming Coinbase’s planned IPO will lead to a 2–3x repricing of other private crypto businesses.

The Bitcoin performance has shown strong growth over the entire course of 2020, which has deepened retail interest. The interest is continuing to remain high as Bitcoin issuers continue to consolidate their positions and offerings in light of regulatory requirements.

The United States is leading in providing regulatory clarity across the industry, with various US-based agencies imposing regulations on many aspects of the crypto-asset industry. Due to this improved regulatory environment and increasing sustained institutional interest, a Bitcoin ETF is expected to be approved in the US in 2021.

Other regions are going to branch out into differing directions as certain regions apply heavier regulation. The US is an example of a stricter regulator, while the European Union territories are more relaxed in their regulations.

An investment in bitcoin can be managed through first-hand research that is the fundamental cornerstone of any investment process. All bitcoin selection is based on a long-term quality approach. 21Shares places a strong emphasis on its ETP funds. All decisions are made independently and are not benchmark driven.

While we have done the best we can to summarize this information-packed hour into this article, to get the most of it, watch the entire webinar here:

Follow upcoming webinars on: www.swissquote.com/webinars and download our e-books on this topic at www.swissquote.com/education

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Stefano Gianti
Swissquote

Education Manager at Swissquote, Member of SIAT_Italia (the Italian Society of Technical Analysts) and IFTA (International Federation of Technical Analysts).