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Yesterday’s price crash could have been triggered by a misunderstanding over price data
Ethereum co-creator Steven Nervayoff weighs in on how 2018 could be Ethereum’s big year despite China getting sour on miners
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Story - Market Crash Triggered By A Misunderstanding?
https://www.coinigy.com/main/markets/BITF/BTC/USD
Let’s first revisit the technical analysis we did each day last week.
Last week we were doing really well, and the last time we spoke about this Bitcoin had broken above $16,500 and the price was testing it for support.
Then on Sunday the 7th, support failed and then yesterday we broke the low of Sunday to end up with this bearish engulfing pattern that went down to a low of $13,760.
As you know my current short term position started at $12,500 but if it hadn’t this crash would have been a buying of the dip for me.
By the end of the day yesterday we came back above the 38% fib level which is at 14,375.
This may well just have been normal market movements and a failing of support but there’s a possibility the market got spooked.
If we head back to coinmarket cap and click on the price of Bitcoin, this is how coinmarketcap determines the price to display.
My understanding is that they take an average of all these price feeds, from all these difference exchanges and that’s what they show on the home page.
But notice that sometimes they display this asterisk next to the price.
If you scroll right down to the bottom of the page you’ll see this means they are excluding that price from their calculation.
It’s no surprise to me that the price they have chosen to exclude is Bitcoin against the Korean Won because as you can see here, it’s several thousand dollars higher than everywhere else.
If they included this in the average it would artificially pull the average up.
Apparently yesterday they decided to suddenly begin excluding this price from the calculation which made it look like the average price had suddenly dropped, which at that time it hadn’t.
That may have triggered some selling which then fed on itself to cause a price crash.
This is to be expected in a market that has a high population of amateaur investors.
With so many people relying on coinmarketcap for price data means that if there’s a discrepancy it has far reaching consequences.
https://www.coinigy.com/main/markets/BITF/BTC/USD
This is why I much prefer to use Coinigy and get price feeds directly from the largest exchanges like Bitfinex.
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https://www.coinigy.com/?r=16171fe8
Story - 2018 Could Be The Year Of Ethereum
https://coinjournal.net/ethereum-pioneer-early-contributor-says-eth-triple-2018/
I was originally going to criticise this headline because they don’t provide evidence that Steven actually said the price would triple, however…
After watching just 40 seconds of this recording of the CNBC clip, yes he does say “we could see a tripling of the price before the end of the year”.
And this guy was on the founding team of Ethereum which is no doubt why CBNC had him on their Fast Money show.
So why would Ethereum potentially triple this year?
Well Steven says this in the context of what he sees as an exponential increase in the number of projects being built on Ethereum.
The way I think about it is that demand for the Ethereum token primarily comes from applications that want to run on the Ethereum network.
In order to use the Ethereum networks resources you have to pay a fee in Ether.
The more transactions, the more Ether people will have to buy to pay those fees.
So the more apps that are built on Ethereum, the more everyone will need to buy and hold some Ether to run their programs.
That is the fundamental value of the Ethereum token. Yes there’s speculation on top of that to reach the current price, however the floor on how far the ethereum price can fall gets higher and higher every time a sustainable app is launched.
So that’s my long form interpretation of what Steven is saying.
And we know that there are dozens if not hundreds of apps that are going to launch on Ethereum because most of them have done their ICO in 2017 and are now busy building their apps and moving towards a full release.
If just a fraction of the apps that did an ICO last year become large scale apps, that means a significant spike in demand for Ether to run those apps.
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Whole video about ETH - ....
One mention of EOS - "YOU EOS SHILL!!!!"
ah, Youtube, you silly beans.
I'm glad someone noticed that :)
Go Ethereum!
Yes Ethereum is all the way for me also
at least until 2019
Very true, I see ethereum at $5,000 before the end of this year.
I should start watching your videos here instead of evil youtube :)
There is a reason they got rid of their old official company motto of "Don't be evil"... I can't stand their FAR left mindset and blatant selective censorship in general. I hope blockchain platforms like Steemit, Dtube and others kick its ass big time in the coming years.
I think, ETH price will reach into 10000$ in 2018.
Not sure about 10k but 2-3k is very very possible. Not that i would mind 10k :)
Totally agree.
lol it's only gonna get worse this year (better)!
Ethereum still has a lot of room to grow, but not as much as some of the other coins out there so I tend to think unless there is a new wave of ICOs on the Ethereum network that its growth will be fairly slow, but overall quite steady. Add ontop of that the growing number of Ethereum competitors that are coming into being, which may or may not give ETH a run for its money. Should be interesting to see how this all plays out over the next year.
PS I am looking forward to your interview on the WallStForMainSt YouTube channel!
Interesting take on the reason why Ethereum could rise. Do you see a counter trend as all the start ups need to sell some ETH to pay the developers?
The fact that ETH was first to market with the whole virtual machine concept will help them have a strong market share in the space particularly given the ICOs of 2017. Since ICO demand is sort of drying down due to regulation, I would say that gives ETH a headstart vs their competitors. However, they have to look at the challenges at hand (i.e. scaling) as other have solutions that may hinder the growth of ETH.
It should tripple before summer for a healthy growth.
10x in 2018 is realistic.
Man I hope you're right. Lets see if there are any announcements from BUSINESSES who begin accepting ETH as payment. That will send volume soaring and generate even more widespread adoption. (Keeping an eye on Amazon!)
That's exactly what I was thinking too. It just double a couple of weeks ago and it looks like there just way more mass adoption in 2018, ... cryptocurrencies and DApps ... A question I've been wondering about is if Ethereum is finally going to become #1
Not gonna happen :D BTC is da boss.
And unlike BTC, Ethereum is going to be facing a lot of competition in 2018. Battle of the platforms :)
My goesl is to understand the tech and everything about all of them. ETH, NEO, EOS, ADA?, LISK, ICON?, ....whatever
Thank you for this informative post. Let's hope Ethereum can quickly solve its scaling issues through sharding, plasma or Raiden Network.
What else can the co-founder say. Obviously he is not going to say that the price is going to stagnate. I'm not saying that it will not triple, it could, but there is a lot of competition coming from other newer coins and even systems improving the blockchain technology like raiblocks.
Also remember that not always the best technology wins, remember Beta vs. VHS and even Windows. This means that ETH could win other newer and better technologies but also BTC can win them all even when in theory is not the best technology (but is proven).
He could have declined to comment on price, however that would be weird considering he agreed to appear on 'Fast Money' :)
I think it could go up more than triple. All it takes is a few more games on the blockchain, some improvements to CryptoKitties and some business applications.
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The medium of exchange proposition turns out to be separable from store of value and as a medium of Exchange blockchains are not good at this.I personally think that there will be government-issued cryptocurrencies that will be used as a medium of Exchange and that food coin will be used as a global savings account for people who then can transfer certain amount each week into a spending account of Fiat... @marketingmonk
It will be very interesting to see whether BTC is able to retain its top position as store of value and ethereum its position as the preferred smart contract framework as newer blockchains have been launched with similar objectives but which are much faster and cheaper
My thought is a great crypto money to invest in ethereum future..
Oh wow, this is such good news!!👏🏼👏🏼
good news. Keep earning money
Is such news , wow
Ethereum seems to be doing great. We will be seeing some serious shit this year!
I think 2018 will be a good year for EOS aswell. Lets see if EOS has any influence to Eth price.
OMG, I remember selling 36 ETH at $7 each, to pay some debt that I had. If this holds true and goes to $3000 or more I would be really really upset with myself, the big lesson is, always hold, always.
Awesome! I hope it reaches that price this year. That's the greatest new I've heard to far today thanks :)
At least $3000 by end of 2018.
2018 is starting on a good note,I see a number of crypto- currencies gaining value for example Monero
Let's hope this happens! I think Bitcoin took a lot of eth's steam. I think ethereum is going to end up taking over it's position.
Bitcoin has suffered extreme decline, and I am happy to buy Ethereum's $ 10,000 until the end of 2018.
yes hopefully
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What does it take to consider it a crash? I don't feel like ETH really fluctuated that much yesterday. I would maybe call it a small dip, but it rebounded nicely by the time I went to bed...
fingers crossed! 🤞🏼
Most of the popular alt coins are built on ETH. As they grow, the need and purpose for ETH will grow as well.
Just buy cheap tokens based in ERC20 tech from ETH, and watch them grow along with ETH increase.
Smaller investment, greater ROI
I kinda want ETH to go down... i was hoping for a dip so i can buy some and HODL but the price just keeps going up. With my luck ill buy some at 1000+ and it will drop by 40% in a day.
This would be amazing for so many!! fingers crossed. :)
ETH, NEO, ADA would be big :) great article keep up the good work !
Thanks for the video. It really helped my understand Ether some more and it's language. Comparable to EOS but very different.
Good job you deserve my vote @bakabou159704
@marketingmonk while I do hold a small portion in Ethereum, I think a lot of other ecosystems (Stratis, and Neo for eg) have potential to grow much more than Ethereum and I believe more faster lower cost ecosystems would be an even better bet than Ethereum. Just an opinion btw.
Steem price $20 by Xmas !
3x in a whole year is honestly tiny in the crypto space
The fact that ETH have become first to marketplace with the entire virtual device concept will assist them have a strong market proportion within the space specially given the ICOs of 2017. on the grounds that ICO call for is form of drying down because of regulation, i'd say that gives ETH a headstart vs their competition. but, they ought to observe the demanding situations reachable (i.e. scaling) as different have answers that might forestall the boom of ETH.
I think the fees are too high on the ethereum network now so they will need to solve the scaling issue first which they're doing but you could just use another network like NEM or Neo!
I think this is as a result of the speculated hardfork - I left a blog on how to get the forked coin here: https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@iamatabo/ethereum-hardfork-etherzero-how-to-be-an-early-investor-and-make-more-money
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