Will 2016’s $300 Million Blockchain Startup Bubble Burst?
Startups powered by Bitcoin and Blockchain technology raised $290 million during the first six months of this year, resembling the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. According to a report by Juniper Research, venture capital investment raised by companies employing either Blockchain technology, or Bitcoin directly, amounted to more than a quarter of a billion dollars. About a third of this was raised by three companies: Circle, a social payment provider, which raised $60 million; Distributed Asset Holdings, a distributed ledger solutions provider, which raised $50 million; and, of course,....
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The president of Payne Capital Management has warned that crypto is “one of the biggest bubbles ever.” Stressing that the crypto market is “becoming a bigger and bigger casino,” he predicts that the bubble will eventually burst and “It’s going to be ugly.”
Crypto Is a Big Bubble Waiting to Burst, According to the Financial Adviser
Financial adviser Ryan Payne, president of Payne Capital Management, talked about the future outlook for bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market on Yahoo Finance Monday.
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Billionaire Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban sees cryptocurrency “exactly” like the dot-com bubble. He says bitcoin and a few other cryptocurrencies are analogous to those dot-com stocks, like Amazon and Ebay, that survived the bubble burst and thrived. Mark Cuban Likens Crypto to Dot-Com Bubble Shark Tank star Mark Cuban compared what he feels is a bubble in bitcoin to the dot-com bubble on Monday after the price of the cryptocurrency took a nosedive. The owner of the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Dallas Mavericks tweeted: Watching the cryptos trade, it’s....
Vikram Mansharamani is a lecturer in the Program on Ethics, Politics & Economics at Yale University who recently explained why Bitcoin is not in Bubble territory. Is There a Bitcoin Bubble That’s About to Pop? Mansharamani is a lecturer in the Program on Ethics, Politics & Economics at Yale University and a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also the author of “Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst.” In a recent article in LinkedIn he asks: Is there a bitcoin bubble about to burst? He....
So what if Mt. Gox isn't really the de facto Bitcoin exchange anymore? That isn't stopping traders on the Japan-based exchange from pricing the digital currency from most other exchanges. Today, the price per Bitcoin has passed $500 USD - yet another milestone in a year filled with ups and downs (but mostly ups). Meanwhile at Bitstamp (which is looking to become the next Mt. Gox in terms of becomes a de facto exchange), the price is about $466. The real test, as you're well aware, will be if the price can keep it up. For weeks now people have been saying that we're in some sort of bubble -....