Solana Price’s 70% Rally Persuades Detractor, Arthur Hayes Makes Confession

Reynaldo Marquez

1 year ago

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Supported by a spike in volatility, the Solana price has skyrocketed from its yearly lows into a new high. The bullish momentum left some players in disbelief, while others capitulated to the price action and tried to capture some of the profits.

As of this writing, SOL trades at $40 with sideways movement in the last 24 hours. Over the previous week, the cryptocurrency recorded a 30% profit, but the monthly chart saw a 70% increase, while other tokens hardly saw double-digit gains.

Solana price SOL SOLUSDT — SOL’s price trends to the upside on the daily chart. Source: **SOLUSDT on Tradingview**

Solana Rally Changes Arthur Hayes’ Mind

SOL’s recent bullish price action is even more impressive when considering higher timeframes. At the end of 2022, due to the collapse of its most prominent supporter crypto exchange, FTX, the cryptocurrency lost almost all its yearly profits.

During the 2021 bull run, Solana climbed to an all-time high of around $250. In the last days of FTX and Sam Bankman Fried (SBF), the cryptocurrency declined below $10. Now that the token approaches the $50 mark, critics like the former CEO of crypto exchange BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, have reconsidered their position.

Hayes has been vocal about its stance regarding FTX, Bankman-Fried, and the other bankrupted companies in 2022 and the tokens associated with these entities. However, regarding SOL, the BitMEX Co-Founder said:

Fam I have something embarrassing I must admit. I just bot $SOL, I know its a Sam-coin piece of dogshit L1 that at this point is just a meme. But it is going up, and I’m a degen. Let’s Fucking Go!

Arthur Hayes Expects Further Gains

The former BitMEX CEO has publicly expressed his position regarding Bitcoin’s potential to reach new all-time highs. A rally in the number one cryptocurrency would inevitably spill over to Solana.

As NewsBTC reported, in a detailed analysis, Hayes highlighted the intricate connection between global financial trends and Bitcoin’s future, emphasizing the influence of government policies and financial disturbances on investment strategies.

The former BitMEX CEO anticipates a period of market turbulence, with Bitcoin’s value chopping around $25,000 to $30,000, driven by negative real rates and a shift towards diversified investment portfolios. This, he believes, will particularly favor cryptocurrencies, such as Solana.

Looking ahead, Hayes projects a bullish trend for Bitcoin, estimating its value could reach approximately $70,000 by the end of 2024, influenced by the Bitcoin Halving event and potential Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) launches. His long-term vision extends even further, predicting an extraordinary financial boom across various markets, potentially driving Bitcoin’s value between $750,000 and $1,000,000 by 2026.

This optimistic forecast is rooted in his belief that major financial indices, like the NASDAQ and S&P, alongside other significant assets, will experience unprecedented growth, marking a historic boom in the financial markets.

On a related note, Hayes also speculated that a return to aggressive money printing strategies by the US Federal Reserve could act as a substantial catalyst for Bitcoin’s ascent, further fueling the anticipated financial euphoria.

Cover image from Unsplash, chart from Tradingview

Reynaldo Marquez

A literature major, Reynaldo Márquez has been deeply immersed in the crypto industry since 2017. His journey began with translating articles for various crypto news outlets, a role he took on with zeal. In 2018, amidst a challenging market, he embraced his first writing assignment, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to the nascent industry and the promise of change it bears for many people worldwide.
In March 2021, he joined the prestigious crypto news outlet NewsBTC and Bitcoinist, where he not only reported on the latest crypto news but also had the privilege of interviewing some of the industry's most influential figures. A year later, his dedication and hard work were recognized, and he was promoted to Managing Editor, a position he currently holds with pride.
He believes in honesty, good communication, hard work, and the power of cryptocurrency and its potential to transform people's lives, especially those alienated by the legacy financial system. Born in 1992 in Venezuela, Reynaldo is familiar with how governments and central banks can negatively affect people, their everyday lives, and their futures by creating inflation and erasing their hopes for a better future. Thus, like many Venezuelans, he embraced this new technology to help him and his family navigate difficult times.
In another life, Reynaldo would have pursued a career as an investigator, most likely tracking down the origins of the Cyberpunk movement with the publication of William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer.’ The intersection between fiction and reality, with the materialization of Bitcoin in 2009, would have allowed him to dive deep into the crypto sphere as something more than a financial phenomenon but also a cultural shift in society that was brewing since the XX century, and maybe even sooner, in the XIX century with the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience.’
But that’s for another life. In this one, Reynaldo has been trading to improve his trading skills. Since 2023, he has been trying to learn Python to create successful strategies and find ways to execute them. It is a difficult task, which continues to keep him busy today and will most likely continue to keep him busy in the near and long term.
In his free time, he enjoys lifting heavy objects, reading, watching movies, and listening to his favorite music. Some of his favorite authors are Walt Whitman, William Faulkner, Allen Ginsberg, James Baldwin, Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Mario Vargas Llosa, Reinaldo Arenas, Rafael Cadenas, and many others. Lately, he has been primarily interested in reading about dystopic societies, a topic that deeply resonates with the crypto industry.
Since 2023, he has lived in Spain with his wife. He loves the weather, the food, and the people and their culture. They both expect to travel much more within the country they now call home and beyond its border. He hopes to retire with his wife, maybe in a quiet place near a beach, but most likely in a city close to a library and a university with his kids and, hopefully, grandkids.

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