The Crypto BloodBath — The Great Crypto Depression
Why is the market in the red for the past week(s)? When is the best time to invest? Join us in this Crypto BloodBath Explanation!
Ouch! It has been quite a painful week(s)! What’s happening? And why my solo bitcoin and couple of altcoins are not going to the moon like many “specialists” have told us? :(
At the time of writing this post, the 24-hour price-change indicator of most of the top 100 coins was in the red (well, excluding a couple of course). Let’s analyse this and try to understand why this is happening.
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Why has this happened now?
A conjugation of a bear market trend together with the controversy around the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) HardFork, with new SEC investigations and the reports of declining sales from NVidea and AMD, may be some of the reasons for this erratic behaviour.
- Bitcoin Cash Civil War
The controversy surrounding BCH’s Hard Fork is no new news (if this makes sense). BCH in itself has been surrounded by controversy and volatility. Despite this, since its inception, it has grown to become the fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap.
The controversy with this hard fork derives from the fact that the network will be split in two (as it normally is), however, only one can remain the real Bitcoin Cash. So… which one is it? Right… ergo the civil war.
Bitcoin Cash in itself updates twice a year since its creation. However, this update saw two propositions coming up: ABC (with features such as smart contracts, and oracles), and nChain (with an increase in block sizes that would allow quicker transactions). Both of the propositions seem great right? Yea… but, unfortunately, they are not compatible with each other. :(
Until someone came up with Bitcoin Unlimited — that is trying to compile both version’s features in one!
Do you think this is it? Well… think again. The problem is not too many incompatible versions… It is the lack of agreement from the community.
Just check the e-mail Craig Wright (nChain) wrote to Roger Ver (CEO Bitcoin.com):
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Ouch right? Well… this entire public “disagreement” (a very soft word for what is happening) has taken its toll not only on BCH’s price but in other coins as well. Especially when big crypto platforms such as Coinbase has frozen the trade of BCH.
When will it stop? Hopefully, when the “Civil War” is finished, we can see a reverse in the downward market trend — let’s see how it is going to go…
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- SEC Investigations
The SEC has announced that it reached settlements with Airfox and Paragon Coin. These projects issued securities through ICOs after this Summer’s landmark report by the SEC strictly forbidding it. These new regulations aren’t new. That is why many Crypto projects fund themselves by generating utility tokens, thus protecting contributors.
This may seem quite trivial fines applied to projects who did not follow regulations, hence should not have had such a negative effect in the market. However, analysts are predicting this to be just the beginning of a tighter scrutiny into Crypto Projects and this may be helping the negative trend.
- NVidea and AMD Report Decline In Crypto Related Hardware
Nvidea and AMD (chip-manufacturers) recent reported an abrupt sales decline of crypto-related hardware. The report also suggests that this is a clear indicator that the interest in crypto has fallen, and it is not likely to pick up anytime in the near future.
Quick FAQs:
Do these mean that the price of crypto assets will keep going down?
Not necessarily. Crypto Markets, as with conventional markets, are cyclical and a conjugation of unfortunate events and news can bring a steeper decline to an already bear market. However, not everything is bad news… HODL and you will see great returns in the long run! Like that High School Musical song: “We Are All In This Together”
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