Bitcoin is down 7% for the year and 35% below its all-time high of $126,000 reached last October. J.P. Morgan Asset Management projects a base-case annual return of 10% for Bitcoin over the next decade, versus 5.5% for gold, 6% for bonds and 7.5% for stocks. Its bull case is 17% a year, while the bear case is -9.7% a year. J.P. Morgan also calls Bitcoin a volatile, risky asset with unstable correlations to major asset classes and few real fundamentals, making it essentially “a bet on fiat currency expansion.” The author argues Bitcoin remains attractive at around $82,000.
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| Market | Crypto |
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| Exchange | Binance |
| Sector | Layer 1 |
| Market cap | $1.6T |
| Close on 10/23/2026 | 81,189.43 |
| Change that session | -0.28% |
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