According to a study published by financial conglomerate Morgan Stanley, bitcoin behaves exactly like Nasdaq during the dotcom bubble 20 years ago. Only by time now everything is unfolding much faster.
The movement of prices in the Nasdaq index in 2000 and bitcoin these days in the most turbulent periods reached 250-280% in front of the bear market, Morgan Stanley said in a note to clients.
Bear markets for bitcoin since 2009 were observed four times, the price drop with them was from 28% to 92%, Shah reminded. On average, the price of crypto currency lost on each bearish wave of 45-50%, which is very similar to the behavior of Nasdaq 18 years ago.
She drew attention to the fact that at each rally in front of the bear market, there was a fall in trading volumes. But in bitcoin this indicator has jumped by 300% since December, and it does not see a favorable signal for crypto currency.
Historically, three major currencies were used to buy bitcoin: the US dollar (USD), the Chinese yuan (CNY) and the Japanese yen (JPY). At the last bear market, a new share of the currency was absorbed by the new digital currency, called Tether (USDT).
Recall that the Commission on Commodity Futures Trading (CFTC) previously sent summonses to the courts of Tether and Bitfinex, which are linked. The creators of USDT assure that all tokens are provided with US dollars in relation to one to one. But in the crypto community, fears have long ago been voiced that companies really do not have about $ 2.2 billion of funds needed for this.
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