OH NO!! Bitcoin is over! This is horrible news guys! We need to sell everything right now because bitcoin is going to ZERO fast! How do I know this? Unfortunately, the financial gods over at Morgan Stanley have done the research to prove it! They've got the data. Case closed! Right?
Wrong! Bitcoin is not a popping bubble. In fact, Just the opposite is true! Keep calm and HODL on!
Isn’t it interesting how just a few months ago when Bitcoin was at 15-20k the main stream media was singing Bitcoin’s praises? Even my grandparents wanted to get into bitcoin because of all the hype. I couldn't turn on the TV without hearing some "financial expert" talk about how bitcoin is going straight to the moon. THe result was that many new investors bought high back in November and December. But how the time have changed! It seems that just a few months later, the same exact media outlets are talking about how dangerous Bitcoin is and how everybody should be careful. This fear uncertainty and doubt has caused thousands of new investors who just bought in at 15k to sell at 8k! The media is spreading FUD and is causing everybody to buy high and sell low!
Hmmmmm….is it possible that they are using their platform to manipulate the masses thereby manipulating the bitcoin price in order to make a profit?
In the midst of all the FUD surrounding possible crypto regulations, Google and Facebook banning ads and ICO pump and dump scams, Morgan Stanley released some startling news about bitcoin. You can check out the article here
The story goes on to say that Morgan Stanley analyst Sheena Shah conducted some "Bitcoin research". And what do you know! The data shows that bitcoin is behaving a lot like the Nasdaq did nearly 20 years ago, during the time that the dot-com bubble burst. But here's the plot twist...According to Morgan Stanley, the timeline is unfolding 15 times faster than the NASDAQ bubble pop. Here is an excerpt from the article:
"Per a note the financial institution sent to its clients, both the Nasdaq in 2000 and bitcoin nowadays rallied between 250 and 280 percent in their most bullish periods. Sheena Shah, a strategist at Morgan Stanley, noted that bitcoin’s rally was 15 times faster than that of Nasdaq in 2000.
Per Shah, both the price moves and volume behavior are similar when compared. The analyst noted that bitcoin lost 45 to 50 percent of its value in a recent bearish wave, just like Nasdaq did 18 years ago.
Shah further noted that the Nasdaq bear market of 2000 had five similar prices declines “averaging a surprisingly similar amount of 44 percent.” Bitcoin recently fell from a $19,200 all-time high in mid-December to $8,530 at press time.
Trading volume, according to Morgan Stanley, is another red flag. The analyst noted that bitcoin’s trade volumes surged 300 percent since December, but keep falling each rally ahead of the bear markets."
Can Bitcoin Be Compared to the NASDAQ Bubble in the Early 2000's?
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general cannot be compared to the NASDAQ bubble in any way. In fact, it’s doubtful that we can even use the term bubble to describe the cryptocurrency markets!
In order to decide whether there really is a bubble or not, we must first establish what a bubble is.
Investopedia defines an economic bubble as this:
"A bubble is an economic cycle characterized by a rapid escalation of asset prices followed by a contraction. It is created by a surge in asset prices that is unwarranted by the fundamentals of the asset and is driven by exuberant market behavior. When no more investors are willing to buy at the elevated price, a massive selloff occurs, causing the bubble to deflate."
Does Bitcoin Fit the Definition of a Bubble?
Absolutely not! One of the main reasons is that in a real bubble hardly anyone actually thinks it's a bubble.
In fact, it is usually quite the opposite.
That is the reason it bursts in the first place.
At the peak of price cycles you have everyone on the same side. All the bears have been converted to bulls and have bought in hoping for the ride to keep going.
When there is no one left to buy, that is when the music stops and the bubble bursts. Leaving many hurt investors along the way. This is exactly what happened during the NASDAQ bubble back in 2000. Nobody in the mainstream was calling it a bubble.
Compare that to Bitcoin. From its very inception people have been crying BUBBLE. Especially the mainstream media. It was a bubble at $100. It was a bubble at $1000. It was a bubble at $2000, at $3000, at $5000 etc etc! We go through the same thing time and time again. Bitcoin experiences a run up, all the bears cry bubble and then Bitcoin experiences a major correction. All the nay-sayers cry "I told you so" and then Bitcoin inevitably experiences another run up to reach a new all time high! If Bitcoin was in a bubble, then it has already burst and re inflated at least 10 times. Since bubbles do not have the ability to re inflate themselves, it is safe to say that Bitcoin is not a bubble. But there are MANY other reasons as to why Bitcoin cannot be compared to the dot com bubble.
Bitcoin Is Not a Product or a Service. It Has Intrinsic Value
Unlike most other assets whose value driven up exuberantly based on the demand of the market, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies actually have value in and of themselves. This is because Bitcoin is a medium of exchange. It is a currency (like a dollar). However unlike a dollar, it has value in and of itself. Bitcoin is valuable because it is a decentralized peer to peer network that provides individuals with monetary sovereignty. It cannot be counterfeited and it cannot be manipulated or defaced by a central power.
This is because, unlike the dollar, the supply is fixed. There will only ever be 21 million bitcoins in circulation. period. No matter what happens in the future, there will only ever be 21 million Bitcoins. There is no trickery going on with central banks adjusting the supply. This is why so many people look at Bitcoin as digital gold. Gold has value in and of itself because of what it is - a beautiful metal that is difficult to mine and refine. In the same way, Bitcoin provides individuals with security, financial sovereignty and privacy. These are things that every human being wants and are not affected by changing markets or selloffs.
Bitcoin is a currency with intrinsic value. Start up web companies in the 2000's were only as good as the demand for their products or services. You cannot compare Bitcoin the crypto currency to startup internet companies in the early 2000’s. You it’s like comparing apples and school busses.
And that leads me to another important point...
Bitcoin is not a company.
I always try to explain this fact to my grandfather. There is no bitcoin CEO that is in charge of bitcoin. Bitcoin does not earn a yearly profit nor does it do its taxes each year.
Bitcoin is unlike anything we have ever seen before. It is a digital currency, backed by blockchain technology that has attracted the interests of millions of investors and people throughout the world. It is simply an algorithm that is used as a means of transaction. Its value is based on supply and demand laws, so the more people want to use the digital currency, the more its price will grow. The more individuals who decide "Hey, I'd much rather use this peer to peer decentralized private medium of exchange called Bitcoin than dollars" the more valuable Bitcoin will become. And again, because the supply is fixed, then much like gold and silver, there will never be more supply to meet increasing demand. Not to mention each cryptocurrency has a network behind it. There are literally millions of users for Bitcoin and many altcoins that interact and communicate every single day. It is much more than a company or companies with a products.
The economic principles that applied to other bubbles in the past are not applicable to the coin.
I simply don’t think we can really compare the whole crypto-market to the dot com thing in 2000.
That being said, do I think that there be price spikes and dips along the crypto journey? Absolutely! 100%.
Are we in the crypto doldrums right now? Absolutely.
However, with Bitcoin there is much hope!
Let's put this all into perspective. Bitcoin is up over $4,000 since October. Bitcoin is worth more (measured in US dollars) than ever before. If we stop looking at the short term FUD and keep our eyes fixed on the big picture, it's obvious that we are ahead of the game. Yes, it sucks for those who bought in at 15k or higher. However, for those of us who have been in this space since 2016 or before, we are in a FANTASTIC position. And even for those who got in a a bad time, there is still MUCH hope! Just hang tight. We will see new all time highs.
Take a Look at This Illustration
This shows the history of Bitcoin. All along the way there were highs and crashes. All along the way people were screaming bubble! If you don't believe me, go look at the bitcoin charts. If you still don't believe me, do a google search for bitcoin bubble and search for news articles from 2011, 2013, 2015 etc. You will see that from the get-go the media was screaming bubble and at every crash there was a big "I told you so". Notice how resilient Bitcoin is even after the so called "bubbles" pop! Now compare that to the NASDAQ chart from 2001. Very different. After the bubble popped, there was no recovery.
So in closing I just want to say that you should not believe this bitcoin bubble nonsense! This technology is here to stay and just wait - it is going to 50K before we know it! What do you think?
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I bet you wanted to say the exact opposite!
HAH! You're right! Thanks for catching that!
Nice work! I don't think there could be a 'partial bubble'. It's either a bubble or it's not. Bitcoin has utility and limited supply. These give it intrinsic value.
A "partial bubble" simply sounds like a correction.
Right. A bubble pops to nothing. By analogy, a correction is just a valley. It's coming up again. This is the most predictable part for me. A huge dip turns around into a sharp curve quickly. The problem is if there are multiple dips before the feneral direction changes upward.
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WOW! Great article. I also don't believe it's a bubble. When bitcoin hits 50k$ we will read again about bubble.
Exactly! It's been in a "bubble" since the start!
well-said sir
I think you are right. I remember years ago I heard about the Federal Reserve System and fractional reserve banking, the expansion and contraction of the money supply and the need for competing currencies. This came through some Ron Paul videos and writings around 2007 and it was all new to me and got me started thinking about the intrinsic dishonesty of the Fed and the banks and helped me understand the reason there was no gold standard anymore and inflation and the devaluation of the dollar. I have hoped that this blockchain technology in cryptocurrencies and in a multitude of other areas will be the downfall of what I have come to perceive as the evil empire of greed and deception in business , finance, real estate , music, art and every other area of life where the nonproducers exploit the producers. It gives me a lot of hope to think that a system that has been responsible for a lot of wars and poverty and death may have met the David that has arrived to slay Goliath.
Yes, it is a very sad situation! Let's see where this all goes in the next few years. More people need to educate themselves about the current financial system that essentially controls all aspects of modern society all across the world. Unfortunately, the state controlled schooling system is set up to create mindless slaves who take orders from authority figures without question. The system is churning out robots who are completely unable to think for themselves or even consider alternative ideas/viewpoints.
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Pretty good analysis, I really will HODL rather than sell it in loss. It's more like make it or break it situation for me and I have invested over 2000 $ in BTC and other cyrptocurrency .
Mainstream media only spreads FUD about crypto. They knew it was going to correct so they hyped it up on purpose to make a bunch of people lose money and not trust crypto. This is what my last post was about.
I do think that the blockchain technology will be here to stay but, while I do hope, I am not sure that the cryptos will stay.
Bitcoin could become the new gold, but, at the moment, I don't see it as a new currency. Why? Do you want to become the next pizza guy? Probably not. Does a company, who sells a good or service, want to take the risk to be paid in BTC, knowing that its value could be 10 to 15% less the next day? No.
Lots of hurdles have to be taken to be ready for mass adoption.
The major issue all the coins are facing now, is their big volatility. This has to stabilize if a coins what to become a real used currency. Coins which are used, as a payment model for using the blockchain will have less problems with the volatility.
So, to answer the question. Yep BTC will stay and for sure the technology behind it. Yes there will come a time of mass adoption of the cryptocurrencies, but we need to give it time and probably it will not be used as some envisioned it!
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yes, its really simple. Just buy any good crypto with good projects , buy it in dip and wait for atleast 6 months to get good profit. And stop worrying about hat crypto for 6 months. surely it wil give profit just believe in your study and research. today or tomorrow all the govt will have t accept crypto
Great informative article @jaysoncrypto. I'm with you on this one!
The crypto market cap is just at a miserable $325 Billion, an extremely far cry away from what naysayers identify as "Bubble" territory. Considering even Facebook alone has a market cap of $463 Billion, all critics of crypto-currencies clearly fail to realize the potential of block-chain technology.
This summarizes what I would tell anyone who rants against bitcoin. Other coins are highly influenced by its value. Though I switched to Eth for lower fees and faster transactions, there are still trades where the only possible path is Bitcoin. This alone already gives bitcoin value. Having to do something and bitcoin being the only tool available to use. Who wouldn't buy it?
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Bitcoin is a miracle. Any 'analyst' that doesn't acknowledge that is a fool!
I wouldn't be surprised, new miners are coming out and competition is increasing, btc will be less than 1k in a year.
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I'm getting tired of the media and others trashing such a fantastic and important innovation in this world. Peer to peer currency that gives more power to the people. It's amazing! We're living in the most technologically advanced time in the world, and with inventions such as cryptocurrency, we could truly prevail as the common people.
But alas...
Big gov :(
This was an interesting article up until you posted a meaningless image of NASDAQ market cap? Why would you use the NASDAQ market cap graph, but use price for Bitcoin?
Here is an accurate picture of what the NASDAQ has done since the tech bubble in 2000
It has definitely recovered from the dot com bubble and has even greatly surpassed the 2000 levels.
Optimistic insights you have there, couldn't agree more, I do feel for those people who bought in at 10k+ without knowing what they were actually buying into. Such is the game of life when fools and money get together I suppose.
You are right! I'm sure that many who bought at 15k-20k actually did the research and realized the value of BTC. However, it was just a bad time. If they HODL, they will be fine :)
This is a natural cycle. People FOMOing lose when buying the peak, FUDders get burnt shorting when the bottom is reached. Only the long-term hodlers that don't care about the price will profit.
Awesome post! Thanks for that :)
Good article and good analysis! Hold it and wait! you will know what will happen?
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Hmm, very interesting
Lets all we steemians keep save
i have always had my reservations about bitcoin... My instincts never lie.. I was once involved in a heavy argument with a senior colleague for disagreeing with his praises about bitcoin..
I managed to buy a couple of Bitcoin at $2k each - it was all I could afford, but I am hodling for dear life, because even though I may not get to realise the true value (I am 69 years old), my grandchildren certainly will. I watch and listen to everything Andreas Antonopolous has to say and he is quite happy for the naysayers to run around like headless chooks, because it is giving the developers more time to get everything in place and right.
all this is FUD seriously the future is cryptocurrency and if you dont see it now you will regret it people like the post creator said KEEP CALM AND HODL..jpg)
Honestly i am tired of people spreading FUD it effects people like us who are invested in crypto and believe in the project.
watch the show BLACK MIRROR alot of tech they show in this show gives us a preview of technology crypto can support, i bet if you watch the show you will learn and get excited about alot of tech coming up next.
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STOPgood post
is it a true news or what?????
tozemoon! hodl
I make cryptocurrency news, i will post some items in the evening to specifically prove to us
that bitcoin will soon rise again and this time its an all time high. follow.......
HODL and buy is the name of the game
the bitcoin currency is here to stay!
This is the same as every market. Even the property market has booms and busts. When everyone is screaming "Sell!" and running to the hills, it's time to buy. When the T.V. tells you to buy, that's when you sell.
informative article
Acording to the past.
This will happen.
Acording to the past.
Things will get bullish in late 2018.
Bitcoin has NO intrinsic value. You can't use a Bitcoin for something NOT related to money, and you can't even touch one.
That said, its other money properties are superior in every way to gold, silver and fiat.
you can have something worth value that is not physical. Bitcoins value is what the network Is capable of doing, which is swapping to other currency in its respect and providing a store of value that cannot be manipulated by inflation.
That still doesn't mean it has intrinsic value. I think you should study what that means instead of answering reflexively.
its very nature to prove ownership in a digital space and to transfer ownership in a transparent manner is how it manifests its "intrinsic value".
on-top of the physical gold and electricity needed for the hardware and physical tools required to generate cryptographs.
Really nice post! You've made a lot of effort to dig this out and write. I really appreciate it, as I always thought it is the way you described it.
Let's just wait until media will start screaming again that BTC is a "bubble" and cry internally that they did not invest.
Not a bad article for a new investor. You touch upon the possibility of Media manipulation of the Bitcoin price during the "Crash" after Xmas and New year when alot of people were exploited and convinced into cutting there already large losses. I wrote this little article today about the current situation with Alphabet, Google and Facebook.
https://steemit.com/community/@charles1/time-to-delete-facebook-and-move-to-steemit#@decentraleyed/re-charles1-time-to-delete-facebook-and-move-to-steemit-20180326t204436576z
Ive been telling people how corrupt, dishonest and sinister Google are for almost 10 years and until the last few weeks I was considered deluded by friends and family haha Well they arent laughing now!
I will be writing a piece about going further than deletion of accounts and actually bypassing Google completely with various methods
Altcoin season incoming
Glad I didn't invest any money on bitcoins yet. Thanks great artical.
Well, that depends... If you did so when one full bitcoin went for 2 cents....
Good Work! I also don
t believe that bitcoin is going to crash or its a bubble!Everyone who is talking about Bitcoin as a Bubble didnt understand the Idea of Bitcoin. They just looking for some $.
I am exicting for the future and happy be a part of WEB 3.0
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Well you can see the direction of all markets here(including bitcoin):
https://steemit.com/index/@az-charts/indexes-currencies-commodities-cryptocurrencies-nothing-to-see-here-but-maybe-uptrend-in-all-usd-pairs
Morgan hates Bitcoin hahaha
i hope i will be ok soon