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Misleading article. The sharp spike in the graph was due to the drastic increase in the bitcoin price. This was the time when Bitcoin hit all time high and so t

by Sharma 9y ago

Misleading article. The sharp spike in the graph was due to the drastic increase in the bitcoin price. This was the time when Bitcoin hit all time high and so the # of searches for the term. Now that phase has passed and so the search trend is coming back to as it was before the spike. Also, it will go down because now more and more people already know about crypto. Not sure how that is a bad sign. Totally misleading article.

bitxbitxbitcoin 9y ago
The title is written that way for a reason.
oceanman888 9y ago
I agree with you, also "bitcoin" is sort of just a catch phrase at this point, a lot of people got in for because of bitcoin, but pay more attention to altcoins very soon.
Simon_says 9y ago
A person with a certain perspective would see it that way. Suppose you think Bitcoin is a fad or bubble. Ponzi scheme doesn't quite fit since there's no mastermind orchestrating it. You think that people are only buying or outlaying the capital to mine bitcoin in the hopes that someone downline gives you more money for it than you invested. Eventually the world will run out of greater fools and the price would plummet. Decreasing interest from new people would definitely signal something to this person.
- justboxing 9y ago
  > Ponzi scheme doesn't quite fit since there's no mastermind orchestrating it. What about the 'Whales' ? Apparently < 1,650 Wallets (and individuals owning those wallets) possess over 90% of all bitcoin in circulation, and each has a minimum of 1000 BTCs. These whales have routinely manipulated the market. Most recently on Feb 6th, when the Mt Gox Custodian dumped like 300 million worth of BTC and briefly the BTC price plummeted from 7Ks to 5.6K.
  - Simon_says 9y ago
    What about them? What you describe just sounds like normal supply and demand to me. These 'whales' need to convert bitcoin to traditional currency to buy houses, cars, etc. The question is whether there's an unending supply of people who will buy into cryptocurrencies to support the demand side of the equation. And bitcoin isn't really on my radar anyways since nobody uses GPUs to mine it anymore.

by Sharma 9y ago

bitxbitxbitcoin 9y ago

The title is written that way for a reason.

oceanman888 9y ago

I agree with you, also "bitcoin" is sort of just a catch phrase at this point, a lot of people got in for because of bitcoin, but pay more attention to altcoins very soon.

Simon_says 9y ago

A person with a certain perspective would see it that way. Suppose you think Bitcoin is a fad or bubble. Ponzi scheme doesn't quite fit since there's no mastermind orchestrating it. You think that people are only buying or outlaying the capital to mine bitcoin in the hopes that someone downline gives you more money for it than you invested. Eventually the world will run out of greater fools and the price would plummet. Decreasing interest from new people would definitely signal something to this person.

justboxing 9y ago
> Ponzi scheme doesn't quite fit since there's no mastermind orchestrating it. What about the 'Whales' ? Apparently < 1,650 Wallets (and individuals owning those wallets) possess over 90% of all bitcoin in circulation, and each has a minimum of 1000 BTCs. These whales have routinely manipulated the market. Most recently on Feb 6th, when the Mt Gox Custodian dumped like 300 million worth of BTC and briefly the BTC price plummeted from 7Ks to 5.6K.
- Simon_says 9y ago
  What about them? What you describe just sounds like normal supply and demand to me. These 'whales' need to convert bitcoin to traditional currency to buy houses, cars, etc. The question is whether there's an unending supply of people who will buy into cryptocurrencies to support the demand side of the equation. And bitcoin isn't really on my radar anyways since nobody uses GPUs to mine it anymore.