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Bitcoin Falls Below $5,000 For First Time Since October 2017 (bbc.com)
The value of Bitcoin has hit a new low of $4,951, bringing the total value of all Bitcoin in existence to below $87 billion. Much of the turmoil can be attributed to the split of Bitcoin Cash on November 15th. The Bitcoin offshoot has been split into two different cryptocurrencies, which are now in competition with each other. The BBC reports: Bitcoin exchange Kraken said in a blog post that it regarded one of the two new Bitcoin Cash crypto-currencies -- Bitcoin SV -- as "an extremely risky investment." At its peak, in November 2017, it briefly hit $19,783 - which means the price has fallen by about 75%. After the excitements of last year when the price soared to nearly $20,000 and then tumbled, Bitcoin has been rather dull and stable for much of 2018, settling between $6,000 and $7,000.
Bitcoin had faith and mindshare. With faith evaporating, there's no intrinsic value to it, so it could go down to 0. This realization further spooks the "investors". It's kind of like a bank run against an extremely over-leveraged bank with no FDIC to prop anything up.
I'm not sure how losing 75% of its value in less than a year is stable. Heck, its lost 17% in the last week.
These aren't lies.
Low trading volume in the stable period means a lack of interest in anything except the speculation:
https://data.bitcoinity.org/ma...
That's not healthy for any security.
It's basically a 'penny stock'.
One million $/day trading volume is easily manipulated by any of the big Chinese miners.
That chart shows 200 bitcoin (including alts)/day as total trading volume. That seems low, for such a popular penny stock.
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The problem is, dollar is better than all of them combined. It's literally too big to fail.
How is a currency that's created by wasting energy at all valuable? If it stored energy, or stored some valuable work output, then you'd have a point. However, bitcoin is inherently turning coal into hashes that can't be used for anything else. It's the best of Ponzi schemes.
It may be better, but it remains a vehicle for speculators and money laundering, and little (if anything) else.
For every dollar gained in bitcoin, someone else lost it.
Still holding out hope for that Trumpocalypse that will retroactively justify all your rabid seething hate, huh?
Failing? According to who? Relative to Bitcoin, the dollar is incredibly stable. It's never lost 30% of its value in a week.
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TSLA has delivered around 150,000 cars this year; Toyota has delivered about 12,000,000 cars this year. There's roughly a few orders of magnitude in there. Tesla has a LONG way to go before it's even 5% of Toyota, let alone larger than Toyota.
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