Bitcoin nudged, and at the time of writing, surpassed $51,000 (depending on what metrics you use) for the first time in its history. While there was a flurry of celebration over on Twitter yesterday, and the mainstream press piled in to tell readers what the fuss was all about, critics also joined the chorus.
European Central Bank governing council member Gabriel Makhlouf said yesterday he would not buy bitcoin. He went so far as to suggest doing so was like taking part in the 17th-century Netherlands tulip craze, which ended in collapse and widespread personal bankruptcies.
“Personally, I wouldn’t put my money into it, but clearly, some people think it’s a good bet,” said Makhlouf, who is also governor of Ireland’s central bank. “Three hundred years ago, people put money into tulips because they thought it was an investment.”
It’s a sentiment echoed in a recent survey of institutional investors. According to Gartner, only 5% of finance execs said they would buy BTC in 2021.
Institutional investors may just be driving the crypto market crazy but financial bigwigs are still skeptical about Bitcoin—and aren’t planning to hold the asset.
That’s if a new survey by consultant Gartner is anything to go by. A poll released by the firm today said that only 5% of finance executives interviewed said they would hold Bitcoin in 2021.
In fact, 84% of respondents said they did not plan to hold it ever as a corporate asset because it is just too volatile.
And of the 16% of respon...
“There are a lot of unresolved issues when it comes to the use of bitcoin as a corporate asset,” Alexander Bant, chief of research in the Gartner Finance, said. “It’s unlikely that adoption will increase rapidly until we get more clarity on these challenges.”
The challenges Bant was referring to, appears to be around regulation and volatility. But the volatility appears to be what’s pushing the likes of Elon Musk and others into the space. Indeed, Tesla has amassed a virtual profit of $420m in the week since the company announced it had bought bitcoin.
Crypto devotees are predictably enthused by Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in Bitcoin, but one shareholder isn’t as pleased.
Gary Black, a private investor and former Goldman Sachs executive who’s become something of an influencer (he has nearly 50,000 followers on Twitter), said this morning that he’s out on Tesla, for now.
“I have exited my $TSLA positions after being long since August 2019,” he tweeted. “The absence of clear FY’21 delivery guidance, increased odds of a 1Q miss, and a more r...
For HODLers of gold, they might be having second thoughts about Bitcoin, too. Holger Zscahepitz, a market analyst for German publication Welt has pointed out over on Twitter that gold prices have been tumbling since Bitcoin’s price has been rising.
But while the good times have well and truly been rolling, OG investor Peter Brandt took to Twitter to point out Bitcoin’s historic price rise may not be the best time to hop on board the BTC bandwagon.
Big picture $BTC Bitcoin is undergoing its third parabolic advance in the past decade. A parabolic advance on an arithmetic scale is extremely rare - three on a log scale is historic pic.twitter.com/fyyM5Ws6N5
He posted yesterday about Bitcion’s historic third parabolic movement, but referenced another Tweet about the dangers of parabolic advances.
A cautionary message about parabolic advances:
Once a parabolic advance is obvious, it is way to late to be a buyer. The train has left the station. If you do not already own a market by the time I point out a parabolic trend, then don't buy based on my chart
Each of the three major US indexes hit record intraday highs early on Tuesday before pulling back slightly.
This came after European equities had a strong Tuesday after European economies begin to plan relaxing lockdowns. But some analysts are warning the unfettered growth may be coming to an end.
"The astonishing equity rally we’ve seen in recent days has showed signs of petering out over the last 24 hours," wrote Deutsche Bank analyst Jim Reid in a note.
It comes after global stocks saw their longest bull run since January 2018, with MSCI's global index rising for 11 straight sessions. It closed flat on Tuesday however, narrowly avoiding a further day of gains that would have marked the longest winning streak since 2003.
The good times continue to roll, but for how long?
The Ethereum Foundation has published a new treasury policy that aims to reshape how its reserves are held and invested, seeking to rewrite the playbook in a way better suited to the on-chain world it helped create.
The new set of treasury policies marks two key moves from the non-profit organization that stewards development for the Ethereum ecosystem.
It aims to reduce annual spending from 15% of assets to just 5% by 2030 and will also seek to utilize its treasury for DeFi protocols.
Those pr...
Circle has priced its initial public offering at $31 per share, raising approximately $1.1 billion in an upsized deal that exceeded both initial size and guidance.
The offering values the stablecoin issuer at $6.9 billion based on outstanding shares, with a fully diluted valuation of $8.1 billion including options and warrants.
The company and selling shareholders sold a total of 34 million shares, up from 32 million as of Monday. Circle initially aimed to sell 24 million shares at $24 to $26....
A China-based travel booking firm has told U.S. regulators that its plans to establish a $300 million XRP treasury—a corporate-strategy play that has become all the rage among a small crop of public companies following a recent upswing in the cryptocurrency market, despite apparent risks.
Webus International filed on Tuesday a Form 6-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission detailing its plans to add the Ripple-linked XRP token to its balance sheet. The Nasdaq-listed firm entered into an ag...
