Bitcoin & Cryptos In Mid 2018

2018 has been an unpredictable year till now for all crypto assets. The total market value of all traded cryptocurrencies reached all time highs late last year to peak at about $800 billion in January and Four months later, crypto-assets had plunged by about two-thirds. Then regulators began to crack down and fear of big losses made many hodlers to sell off. By late June, Bitcoin had fallen about 70 percent and the worth of hundreds of other virtual coins fell close to zero.

Crypto market share

Crypto market share

Still after some regulations clarity Bitcoin is not exactly usable as a type of money. It’s not necessarily a useful form of it. It’s possible to buy or sell some things with Bitcoin but very few people do. The pricing can not follow and be based on Bitcoin because of the extreme fluctuations against USD. You wouldn’t want to spend Bitcoin on groceries today if you thought its value might soar tomorrow, or take your salary in Bitcoin if you thought it might plunge.

They’re electronic assets created and monitored by a community of users acting in a decentralized way, following protocols set down by the person or persons who dreamed them up. The “crypto” in the name refers to the encryption techniques used by so-called Bitcoin miners. And all the new currencies revolve around what’s seen as Bitcoin’s real innovation — blockchain, a publicly visible, largely anonymous online ledger that records the calculations miners perform to verify transactions without the need for a central authority. Bloomberg

After all the technology is unique and blockchain is being taken seriously, many have invested and keeping high hopes on the future of Bitcoin, technology geeks who believe they’re disrupting the marketplace and getting in early on the next chapter in the history of money and financial firms and central banks that think something important will come out of all this even if Bitcoin withers and there are also plenty of investors who aren’t true believers but who hope to find one to sell their holdings to if crypto prices soar again.

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