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Bitcoin Is Not a Tech Stock: Why the Software Correlation Is a Mispricing, Not a Signal

Before the Consensus Catches Up

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10x Research
Apr 29, 2026
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Bitcoin has spent the past several years trading in near-perfect lockstep with high-growth software stocks, rising and falling with the Nasdaq as if it were just another tech bet. When AI began threatening SaaS business models in late 2025, Bitcoin followed the IGV Software ETF down tick-for-tick.

To many investors, the message seemed clear: Bitcoin is a tech asset, and tech is under pressure. But that reading is wrong, and the mispricing it has created may be one of the most important opportunities in this cycle. In this report, we explain why Bitcoin’s correlation with software stocks is a market structure artifact, not a fundamental truth, and why the asset should be valued on an entirely different framework.

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