WeeklyUpdate

We all know by now that the price of BTC was boring (hovering around 6300) but last week there was a direction and that was down.

The internal war about hashing with Bitcoin Cash didn’t work out very well. Bitcoin Cash will be dumped by a lot of holders.

This supports our previous statement that the complete cryptomarket was driven by the possibility to initiate ICO’s and abusing the Etherium platform.

The upward trend in Etherium was caused by scammers. To get in to the ICO market, you had to buy Bitcoin.

Now the price is around 5.080 US$ and it is expected that the price will drop further.

The price is looking for a bottom but has not found it yet.

Lets forget the expected bull run for this year, this run will not come. We have to wait another year to get something moving. The only thing that can move the crypto market is a financial crisis where Bitcoin can be seen as a digital safe haven. As it was called earlier before: Gold 2.0

It has all the properties of Gold but then better (you can move it fast and storage is for free). The protection is something else 🙂

Lets wait and look what changes will emerge.

A simple update: The attack on Tether has been started and this will create some panic. Today is is #2 on daily volume (almost 3 Billion)

We have seen a vacation period between end of July until the beginning of September and not much action was seen in the Crypto market. Well Jamie Dimon (CEO JP Morgan) is partly right. Not Bitcoin is a scam, a lot of ICO’s are using the Ethereum platform to create a scams. Those ICO’s pumped the crypto market and Ethereum also took off.Linked to Ethereum (ETC) is Bitcoin as the primary entry point for the crypto market. Currently Ehereum is around 200 US$ but it is expected that this will go further down in this bear market that continues. The BTC dominance is growing and now sitting on 56,2%

OK, legitimate projects are there but those are limited. Good initiatives can be abused. As soon as there is a vulnerability to abuse the system, the scammers will find a way to get your money.

This bear market can go on for several more months. The market is waiting for a number of real indicators to move some new capital into the Crypto market.

What to expect and a few idea’s (items to consider):

1. Shake out of projects (cryptos) that are not doing anything (the scam projects).
2. Let platform crypto’s proof what they can do (if faith is gone they take a nose dive). EOS (25% of peak) and NEO (8% of peak) are still pretty stable.
3. If good projects go down 75% to 90%, what to expect from the rest of the platform tokens?
4. There is a war on cash.
5. Cash entering a new asset class is dangerous for the stability of the financial ecosystem.
6. The SEC is not doing anything to approve ETF and more. More delays are expected.
7. The move into crypto will build up as the pressure on the financial system increases.
8. There are a lot of entities manipulating the market with a broad spectrum of instruments.
9. We have trade wars going on
10. If money is a commodity you can make it cheaper or more expensive. Interest policy is doing this. The US is increasing the interest but in fact this is not possible.
11. We have restrictions on export and import (Iran, Turkey)
12. To centralize a decentralized concept like DLT (Public blockChain) will put away the power.
13. Exchanges putting the assets of customers in a pool and let them trade in this pool. A separate closed trading sphere is created. Yes Exchanges make the most money in the crypto space without any risk.

There are a large number of strong GEO political forces moving around to find a way out.

A nice YouTube video from Ready Set Crypto:

All the crypto’s are down. TMC is around 245B. Banks are releasing reports on Bitcoin. If even the BIS bank is releasing documentation on crypto’s, then it becomes a sign that the banks are afraid of what is going to happen. The crypto market is unstoppable but not without a fight.

Banks are taking a stake in Exchanges because that is where the real money is being made. Also exchanges are centralized trading places. Centralized = control and manipulation. It is a contradiction: Bitcoin, a decentralized concept is traded in centralized places (Exchanges). As soon as decentralized exchanges are being used, we will see a shift.

The news in general is bearish, the news is not showing real news, and the banks are attacking the crypto world with mis information. In the meantime they are entering this markt (not officially).  There is also an exit from banking people moving toward the crypto world.

One month of BTC, it is moving in the black box (from a bit above 6.800 US$ and now trading at 6.176 US$)

This all tells enough we will get fireworks in the near future.

It is still very silent. The Crypto technology moves on, the TMC goes down. It is interesting that one of the persons (Jim Rickards) that talked about currency wars between nations maybe forgot something: BlockChain and Cryptos.

Crypto’s make it possible to create your own money or securities if you like. This is now accessible for a large number of companies that investigate or create their own BlockChain. Nations are trying to compete with several assets they put on their specific BlockChain. This can be oil, gold and other resources.

And from the history we can see that every Money system will be attacked. Every Cryptos will be attacked. This is also what Andreas mentioned in several of his public presentations.

Crypto Manipulation: Spoofing, Trade Washing, Centralization (Exchanges) and many more manipulation techniques.

Update: 180422

The last two weeks was very silent and we saw some pumps in the BTC price. Those are typical stress tests to test support levels. In the Alt-Coin market EOS moved almost 100% due to an airdrop. There is another airdrop coming. BCH is also moving because of the hardfork. Yes another hardfork. The FORK of the FORK. The price is moving to a ratio of 1:6 with BTC. Looking at the BTC price and market dominance, the price is not going up quickly, most of the new money moves into the Alt-Coins. The TMC is around 400 B and the BTC dominance dropped to 39%

Most likely, the price of BTC will hover between 8.800 and 9.150 and will get another push when there is enough support for the level.

Update 180331: The YouTube information dropped substantially. This is an indication that the interest and enthusiasm dropped on a global scale. The price of BTC and other cryptos like Ethereum dropped again. When Bitcoin goes down, everything goes down. Ethereum (ETH) is a major crypto that drives the ICO market, it is a ICO platform where smartcontracts and tokens can be created quickly. In the last periode of March, major social media companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter) are or will be blocking ICO advertising. Also MailChimp will take action. If you promote cryptos, you account will be blocked. This process of blocking new ICO’s is called the ICO lock. More on this later. 

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