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Friday, June 1, 2018

FUD


My posts are running a little bit late these days. Ok a lot late. It’s a little less impressive to post price predictions after than have already happened. Still, here it is and perhaps the trend hasn’t ended yet.

People in the bitcoin community like the acronym FUD, which stands for fear, uncertainty and doubt. Lots of people have doubts about bitcoin, particularly outside of the cryptocurrency community. So, the community often gets tired of the same points that are brought up by outsiders, that bitcoin doesn’t have intrinsic value (which is true, but fiat doesn’t either), that it’s a ponzi scheme (which isn’t true, but many scammers use btc to facilitate their scams), and others.

But I recently read an email this week that makes a compelling argument for a price decrease. Harry Dent the Founder of Dent Research, uses the following chart, showing some of the largest bubbles in history.

So it’s possible BTC may lose some value. In the short time after this email, btc has actually gone up. But by the time I actually publish, I expect a totally different story.

Here is another except from his email: “ But I don’t think this crash is done. I expect we’ll see bitcoin ultimately lose well over 90% of its value before rallying again longer term.

Then it’ll be the buy of the century just like the internet stocks were in late 2002 after a similar, dramatic 16-month bubble and then a 93% crash.”

Here is another chart shared on reddit recently


So maybe it is a good time to sell. Unfortunately, it looks like you can no longer buy Amazon gift cards with bitcoin anymore! The sites I used in the past like Egifter no longer sell Amazon gift cards for btc, or even for USD. So this is unfortunate. Perhaps I will have to use EBay instead (which if you haven’t used since the early 2000s, still has a lot of good things on it, particularly cables). Either way, I will have to figure something out, and I’ll post an update.


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