Quote from: CarlosRiv on December 03, 2017, 09:26:38 PM

This morning, the price of bitcoin rose to 11,400.8 USD on the Hong Kong exchange Bitfinex. This marks a new all-time high for bitcoin and an increase in its price by a factor of more than 10 since the beginning of 2017.

Many experts claim that this growth is the result of reduced hype surrounding the US dollar. They believe that this is more a case of the dollar depreciating than the price of bitcoin rising.

Crypto-analysts claim that the US Federal Reserve has printed so much money in the last 10 20 years that not even the regulator actually knows how much USD is in circulation around the globe.

At the end of 2008, the Fed announced they had opted for a printing press cure to the crisis as the first round of the regulators asset-purchasing program got underway. No one knows the current value of the M3 money supply in the US. Some members of Congress are long-time critics of the Fed and blame the regulator for turning the dollar into a bubble with no real backing.

I agree with this assessment. If you look at the Federal Reserves economic projections over the last 5- 6 years, youll find that they almost always miss the mark. Its important to understand that the Feds main role is to regulate money supply (by forming monetary policy) to support economic growth (low unemployment and 2% annual inflation). The question is how can the money supply be efficiently controlled when the Fed itself doesnt know how much money is in circulation (as Ive stated above, this relates to the M3 money supply)? This is exactly why the Feds economic forecasts have been off for the last 10 years as well as why theyve been unable to adequately conduct monetary policy. In other words, the Fed has become less efficient at its job and the supply of dollars has slipped form their control.

Crypto-analysts claim that during the next US crisis, not only will global investors shift towards cryptocurrencies (i.e. the dollar will lose its status as a safe haven and become a high-risk, unreliable asset), but American citizens will also look to exchange their dollars for crypto, bringing about a total collapse of the US dollar.

Crypto-analysts claim that with the collapse of the dollar, bitcoin will cost somewhere between 1 and 5 million USD. At the time of writing this review, bitcoin is trading at 11,400.8 USD with a market cap of 162.22bn USD.
Source: https://alpari.com/en/analytics/reviews/cryptocurrencies/23222_27112017/

We've now just hit the 200 billion mark for bitcointalk capitalisation. This 200 billion mark not a long while ago represented the entire cryptocurrency market capitalisation and it's really good to see bitcointalk gain back ground from shitcoins.

I expect records to continue to tumble until at least the end of the year.

Thing is though the markets are crazy right now. We have absolutely no idea if it's going to fall down any time, and if yes, when this is.