How Bubbles, Price And COVID-19 Changed Bitcoin for Me
Bitcoin is not a bubble. It’s the monetary escape hatch we need now that the COVID-19 cat is out of the bag.I trained as a financial historian. My academic work focused on banks and financial markets in the past, and I was always fascinated by iconic bubbles of financial history — the tulip mania, the financial boom of the 1690s, the South Sea Company and Britain’s many financial panics in the 19th century. I wrote a thesis on the 1847 commercial crisis. I analyzed financial returns on London’s stock market in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and showed that returns then squared well with....
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There have been four noteworthy bubbles in bitcoin’s life when the price exploded after rising slowly. Being speculative in nature, the bubble may soon burst, sending the price crashing down before settling at a range above the pre-bubble level. Bitcoin.com examines past bitcoin bubbles and explores when the next one could be. The First Spike. The first....
Results from the past do not offer guarantees for the future. It's the legal disclaimer that comes with every new financial brokerage account and trading promotion. And for good reason. Because results from the past, do not offer a guarantee for the future. Then again, history tends to repeat itself. Let's take a look at the two most recent Bitcoin bubbles: Bitcoin to USD - Jan 2013 to Oct 2013. Bitcoin to USD - Aug 2013 to Jul 2014. If you superimpose them over each other, a clear pattern emerges: Bitcoin to USD chart - April 2013 and December 2013 bubbles superimposed. The similarity....
A new study, which was undertaken by the Slovakian internet security company Eset, finds 50% of 35 to 44-year-olds have become involved in cryptocurrencies since the pandemic. The figure, the highest for any age group, underscores the role Covid-19 restrictions had in forcing citizens from six countries into embracing crypto assets. Changed Habits and Preferences According to Eset’s press release, a total of about 10,000 consumers participated in the study, and from that figure, 2,000 came from the United States. The rest of the respondents were from the U.K., Australia, Japan,....
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....