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A bitcoin comeback may be underway. <\/p>\n

Just as the cryptocurrency was kicking off its latest winning week, ProShares’ Simeon Hyman was emphasizing a bullish bitcoin trend on CNBC’s “ETF Edge<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

“If you look at bitcoin, it’s up a little bit and equities are down [since the Iran war began,]” the firm’s global investment strategist said on Monday.” “So, I think the diversification story really holds in in this current environment.”<\/p>\n

As of Friday’s market close, bitcoin<\/a> gained 5% this week \u2014 with most of the gains coming over a 24-hour period. Plus, it’s up roughly 8% since the Iran war started on Feb. 28. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the S&P 500<\/a> and gold<\/a> are down more 3% since the war with Iran began, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq<\/a> is off more than 2%.<\/p>\n

ProShares is active in the cryptocurrency space \u2014 operating more than a dozen cryptocurrency ETFs. It launched the ProShares CoinDesk 20 Crypto ETF (KRYP)<\/a> last month. It’s up nearly 5% since the Iran war began, but the fund is off about 7% since its early February debut. <\/p>\n

Despite bitcoin’s recent strength, it’s still down more than 40% from its record high of $126,198 reached last October.<\/p>\n

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Bitcoin’s volatile year<\/p>\n

Main Management founding partner and CEO Kim Arthur thinks bitcoin is in a classic crypto winter<\/a> \u2014 a so-called phenomenon that tends to happen every four years. According to Arthur, it’s in the bottoming stage. <\/p>\n

“Bitcoin was trading at $125,000 five months ago. So, it was down 50-plus percent when this conflict erupted,” he said in the same interview. “I do like the fact that it’s outperformed a lot of other asset classes [since the war,] but… you have to widen the lens a little bit on that.”<\/p>\n

Arthur, who has exposure to bitcoin, indicates he’s taking a passive investing approach to the cryptocurrency right now.<\/p>\n

“For myself as an asset allocator and a portfolio manager… I look at bitcoin as my benchmark, and then I bench everything else against that,” said Arthur, who added bitcoin has been an extremely difficult master to beat particularly since 2021.<\/p>\n

The digital currency has gained about 15% over the past five years.<\/p>\n

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