Bitcoin Surges Back Above $16,000 In Abrupt Early Morning Move
And not a moment too soon for the bulls.
And not a moment too soon for the bulls.
“This is a true, crazy mini-bubble of its own I expect – it has certainly passed my ‘nephew test’ of his obsessing about buying or not.”
It applies “to all accounts and precludes the firm’s roughly 17,000 advisers from pitching bitcoin-related investments [and from] executing client requests to trade GBTC.”
Is it a replica of a tulip bubble?
Well, if Bitcoin fans were looking for a catalyst to jumpstart things in 2018, they’ve got one now.
Draw your own conclusions.
“All of these latter-day speculators will have their hands burned to a crisp, and they will learn the proper lesson.”
“How confident would you feel?”
That raises the following obvious follow-on question…
“…a Bank of England-issued digital currency would potentially allow British citizens to keep their money – in digital form – with the central bank itself, dispensing with the need for a retail bank.”
Fortunately, there’s still time to “diversify”…
“It’s really a godsend to them.â€
You should be fine as long as the risk factors don’t stretch into the triple digits.
While we’re all just making shit up, let’s go ahead and opt to have our salaries paid in Bitcoin, ok?
You can make of that what you will, but…
“I don’t think it’s going to be a bubble that’s just going to burst and everyone is going to lose their money, but”…
Here’s a chart that shows you the history of Bitcoin crashes…
“I didn’t want to have to deal with the schizophrenic emotional side of it.”
This, folks, is not how “a currency” acts. At least not one issued by a developed country.
So is this the end? Have we seen “peak crypto”?Â
And when “presented” with that opportunity in an environment where trading revenues are drying up, you can bet the whales and squids are going to come knocking demanding their “fair” share of the action.
“Bitcoin’s price looks abnormally high if you graph it.”
It seems entirely reasonable to posit that some of those employees either leaked the information, traded at arm’s length through someone else’s accounts, or both.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this gets more insane literally by the minute.
Stay tuned next month when we expect “Long Ethereum-pegged Ziddu Coins” will top BofAML’s list.
“I actually sold all my bitcoins recently and switched to bitcoin cash.”
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