Although few cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin are widely accepted for merchant payments, increasingly active exchanges allow holders to exchange them for Bitcoin or fiat currencies — providing critical liquidity and flexibility. Since the late 2010s, big business and institutional investors have closely watched what they call the “crypto space” too.
“If you were to wake one morning to find that crypto has been banned by the developed nations and it became worthless, would you be OK?” Frederick Stanield, a CFP with Lifewater Wealth Management in Atlanta, Georgia, told NextAdvisor recently.

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Online factors exhibit stronger relationships in the long term, and such relationships were found to be consistently positive. The long term positive relationships suggest long term price trends are linked with online activity. This is an intuitive result, given that successful cryptocurrencies are likely to have active communities; as the community grows, so does belief in the cryptocurrency, and vice versa.