The crypto market continues to shrink. This week, the market lost $20 Billion more from its $256 Billion valuations. The dominance of Bitcoin versus alternative coins remained similar to last week around 47-48% in favor of Bitcoin and the trend of the trading alternative coins to Bitcoin was somewhat halted last week. The alternative coins, like Bitcoin, suffered this week against the dollar, but in trading against Bitcoin, it seems that the sharp declines have stopped. If we listen carefully to the market winds, we may hear them touch the floor.
The most prominent of the alternative coins this week is the Ethereum Classic (ETC), which rose around 16% in spite of the market declines after the currency was added to coinbase.
Overall, the week can be summed up as a calm relative to the volatility cousin we saw in the weeks preceding it, yet we must not forget that this is still a wild and unregulated market. Veterans of the market know that calmness of the mighty can be misleading. Therefore, unexpected events should be taken into account which can shake the thresholds of currency rates in the short term. However, despite the fact that the enthusiasm and interest in the cryptocurrency market are slowly eroding, the long-term outlook is turning to the test of time to tell us how ready the world is for the Bitcoin revolution. We are still waiting to see demand stemming from real progress in the field and not only in the hot air of investor sentiment. Such factors as visible in the foreseeable future could be the crossing of the block in 2020, approval of the Bitcoin ETF, economic crises, geopolitical influences, positive developments in the regulatory world, and the introduction of institutional money into the markets. The interrelationship between the various factors is complex and has far-reaching implications for the global economy and requires great patience because large revolutions take time.
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This post was first published on: Aug 7, 2018
