Those two worlds, in other words, have decoupled. This quarter, the correlation between bitcoin (BTC) and the S&P 500 declined from 0.91 to 0.59, and got as low as 0.01 on March 22. (A correlation of 1 means the price of two things is moving in lockstep, while minus 1 means a perfectly inverse relationship. Zero means no link at all.) In other words, digital assets have behaved as the diversifying, uncorrelated asset that many investors crave.
Crypto Prices Jump in Q1 Despite Weakened Asset Class Perceptions
