 The crypto markets are growing. Bitcoin is up 25% from $3,200 in December, trading to around $4,000 right now. Ethereum has almost doubled. Is the crypto winter finally at an end? Is it too early to call it a bull run? We talked to Naeema Slang, chief market analyst at ThinkMatters, and Timothy Ekening, managing director at Digital Asset Fund. If you look at the fundamentals, we have more positive news coming out of the crypto industry. I think the fact that Bitcoin is about to have its first positive month, a lot of traders are just completely focused on that, because if that happened, then for the first time within the last five months, if that happened, I think that would be another very, very positive message. I want the price to stay above $4,000 to $4,200 by the end of this month, and I don't think that there is any problem with that. I don't see it as big. ETC is no longer such a good proxy for crypto, and that the spike down was actually an ETH that did that. So if we accept ETH as a proxy, maybe we've seen that spike down. I'm not sure. Personally, I'm not convinced that what we're looking at now, $4,000. We're still very much in a consolidation period, because I want the price to go above $6,000 in order for me to really confirm the fact that the bull market is here. But again, the signs are here, because we haven't seen a low and low for the Bitcoin price. Ethereum didn't drop below $100, and then this is what I'm publishing my recent article on Forbes, that if the price hasn't dropped below $100, that also provided a lot of support for the crypto enthusiasts, for the holders to come back into the market and then start pumping it back up. It's not clear to me that the bear market is over, but this movement is much more due to, again, in people are trying to figure out what should the price of BTC be. What has to happen for this to be a real bull market in BTC is BTC has got to break through $4,200 on the upside, it hit $4,236 in December. If you look at the volume in terms of a price action, any downward move wasn't really supported in terms of a volume. We're seeing a higher volume on any upward move rather than any higher volume on the downward move. The JPM coin is the first among all the top Wall Street banks because we still have Goldman Sachs, we still have Citibank, we still have Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and various other banks working on this technology. So the moment we start having this news that other banks are also initiating this idea, this would be all positive development for the industry. So if you're speaking with an investor who's an active investor, I think then the room to the upside is limited because we need to break above $4,200 to $4,300. So we don't have too much of a room on the top side, so the opportunity to carry in was near enough $33,000 to $3,400. If you're speaking with an investor who's a long-term horizon and then they wanted to just buy and then put in the portfolio, then absolutely because one, it is extremely difficult to pick the absolute bottom and when we look at the long-term curve, we are still very much to the lower side of that curve and then this is a great opportunity or a great entry point. If you wrote it down from $20,000, it's definitely in terms of getting in. It's actually not a bad, make more sense from my perspective to invest in an active manager and do it now because if we're not Adam is and so that would make sense. But if someone is not, if someone got out at the peak or is looking at going in the crypto, I think that would be a very good time with us. One of the things that's going on in this crypto winter is people taking and calling it, is there's still a lot of, there's a lot of substantive developments that are going on. A lot of the weaker projects and weaker companies are falling out. So what you're left with are stronger companies in a really good position to take advantage of the upswing. I think it's about time that we should start seeing these kind of moves coming in because I think investors are just tired of sitting on the sidelines and then they're losing numbers, a huge amount of new, good projects in the industry where investors really kind of want it to get into. Cointelegraph, like, subscribe and hodl.