Bitcoin Gold, Litecoin Silver: An Introduction to Cryptocurrency’s Valuation and Trading Strategy

Haoyang Yu, Yutong Sun, Yulin Liu and Luyao Zhang

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Abstract: Historically, gold and silver have played distinct roles in tra- ditional monetary systems. While gold has primarily been revered as a superior store of value, prompting individuals to hoard it, silver has com- monly been used as a medium of exchange. As the financial world evolves, the emergence of cryptocurrencies has introduced a new paradigm of value and exchange. However, the store-of-value characteristic of these digital assets remains largely uncharted. Charlie Lee, the founder of Lite- coin, once likened Bitcoin to gold and Litecoin to silver. To validate this analogy, our study employs several metrics, including unspent transac- tion outputs (UTXO), spent transaction outputs (STXO), Weighted Average Lifespan (WAL), CoinDaysDestroyed (CDD), and public on-chain transaction data. Furthermore, we’ve devised trading strategies centered around the Price-to-Utility (PU) ratio, offering a fresh perspective on crypto-asset valuation beyond traditional utilities. Our back-testing re- sults not only display trading indicators for both Bitcoin and Litecoin but also substantiate Lee’s metaphor, underscoring Bitcoin’s superior store-of-value proposition relative to Litecoin. We anticipate that our findings will drive further exploration into the valuation of crypto assets. For enhanced transparency and to promote future research, we’ve made our datasets available on Harvard Dataverse and shared our Python code on GitHub as open source.

Date: 2023-07-31
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