Forecasting Bitcoin price using quantitative models, Part 3
To understand where the value of Bitcoin is headed, we need to study the adoption rate of cryptocurrencies in the world. This is Part Three of a multipart series that aims to answer the following question: What is the “fundamental value” of Bitcoin? Part One is about the value of scarcity, Part Two — the market moves in bubbles, Part Three — the rate of adoption, and Part Four — the hash rate and the estimated price of Bitcoin.The rate of adoptionIf more and more people desire a certain good, and the same amount of units are in circulation, the price will obviously have a tendency to rise.....
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