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Topic
Board Speculation
Re: 2013, 2017 bubbles and 2020 bull run
by
thecodebear
on 30/11/2020, 18:28:11 UTC
In 2017, people talked about 2013 bubble, said about adoption, difference.
Bitcoin’s Present Bubble Might Actually be the Beginning of Mainstream Adoption

In 2020, peopled talked about 2017 bubble, said it is different. Crypto Long & Short: 4 Metrics That Show How the Current Bitcoin Rally Is Different From 2017

I see 2 opinions in 2017 article that makes me hiccups.
- Mass adoption
- This isn’t 2013 anymore

The article in 2020 has 2 charts for Bitcoin and Ethereum returns in 2 years and they are interesting charts but I don't agree with the article that bitcoin has more space to run up because of the past pattern and the Ethereum rise this year. Bitcoin bull run is from itself and Ethereum does not contribute to bitcoin bull run.

The main problem with your analysis is that you are comparing 2020 to 2017/2013. In a year you should be comparing 2021 to 2017/2013. If you're gonna compare 2020 to a previous year then you should be comparing it to 2016. You're fundamentally missing basic Bitcoin market dynamics if you think 2020 is like previous boom years. 2020 is the "getting back to/near ATH" year, which is what 2016 was. 2020 is by no means a boom year, that only happens once Bitcoin launches off the previous market cycle peak.

If this was last market cycle Bitcoin would be at like $900 right now and you'd writing about in this post how Bitcoin doesn't have more room to run and how the fledging Ethereum won't contribute to Bitcoin price appreciation. Then you'd miss out on the 20x gains of the following year and the fact that ETH's ICO boom helped Bitcoin's run out immensely by bringing in many more people to the crypto market.

Also the retail frenzy HASN'T EVEN BEGUN yet in this market cycle. The recent price pump is mostly from institutional investors. Grayscale, well known Wall St billionaires, and corporations have been buying up hundreds of thousands of bitcoin the past few months while literally only about 1/100th of that amount has been newly minted BTC during that time. And these are long term investors, not newbie retail traders that are going to panic sell as soon as the price starts dropping - that may be why we only just had a short shallow correction instead of a full blown 30-40% correction this past week because long term investors have been mass buying up the market so the floor is significantly raised now as compared to just 6 months ago when the floor was like $8k/9k. Throw in a little bit of an expanded market from limited Paypal crypto service so far and you can see we are only a month into what may be a year long full-on bull run.