Virtual currency prices fall
in the current situation, blockchain is not a mature technology. What the market values is the so-called prospect, and it will take time to improve and excavate it slowly. However, the collapse of virtual currency is just a return to its own value
in short, I think bitcoin will continue to grow slowly after falling below a certain price. The current slump is just that the funds attracted by the previous heat have discovered the characteristics of virtual currency (hacker attack, dealer trading, these two situations will probably only appear in the newly issued currency, which is determined by the characteristics of blockchain, in other words, Hackers may also attack bitcoin in the early stage, but the more people and nodes bitcoin enters, the lower the probability of this situation, and the more difficult it is to generate)
in addition, I think that a large number of people in China even don't know what bitcoin is, so they are ready to make a fortune with money.
the price of bitcoin is determined by supply and demand. When the demand for bitcoin increases, the price of bitcoin rises; As demand decreases, prices fall. At present, only a few bitcoins are in circulation, and new bitcoins are issued at a predictable rate of graal decline, which means that demand must follow this inflation level in order to maintain price stability. Compared with the market scale it may become, bitcoin is still a relatively small market at present. It does not need a lot of money to make the market price fluctuate up and down. Therefore, the price of bitcoin is still very unstable.
According to the latest data of bitfinex, poloniex, gdax and other trading platforms, the price of bitcoin continued to decline for six consecutive days. The latest price has reached the $14000 mark of Tiepo, which has dropped more than 30% from the highest point
Once people realize that's how it works, they start selling it, he says. The old bitcoin network may not work
Oldenburg admits that buying, selling or trading bitcoin is not a problem nowadays, but when bitcoin transactions are recorded in the blockchain, that is, when each transaction is recorded in the digital ledger, the problem will come to the surface. The crux of the problem is that you can only process a limited number of transactions per second in a bitcoin network, which in turn depends on the "block size" of memory in which the transactions are stored. Aldenberg said that would lead to the scarcity of liquidity and the unavailability of cryptocurrency
All in all, aldenberg doesn't believe that bitcoin will become the currency people use everyday. As long as the network is run by this group [in the old bitcoin network], these solutions will be found in bitcoin cash, where I will see the future, he saidRoger Waugh, an early investor of bitcoin and known as "bitcoin Jesus", believes that compared with the traditional version of bitcoin, bitcoin cash is faster, cheaper and more reliable. Some people in the market have predicted that bitcoin cash will replace bitcoin as the big boss of cryptocurrency, because bitcoin cash is more suitable for the efficient market
However, on Tuesday, coinbase, the leading bitcoin trading platform in the United States, announced that customers could buy and sell bitcoin cash freely, which prompted the rapid rise of bitcoin cash in the past two days, more than doubled in two trading days and set a record high of US $4300 P>said in a weekly "House View" report: "what we think is all the characteristics of bubbles: high trading volume and little practical use, which indicates that many traders are seeking speculative returns. Although the supply of bitcoin is limited, there are many more widely used cryptocurrencies, and there are now thousands of potential substitutes. "
the report from UBS's chief investment office of wealth management reiterated the bank's attitude in October. UBS said at the time that it believed that the whole encrypted money market was in the "speculative bubble". p>
in this week's report, UBS wrote: "we do not recommend customers to invest in bitcoin or short bitcoin. In principle, the irrational time of these markets is much longer than you can tolerate."