All highly successful companies are tech companies of their day, new tech gains a leveraged advantage over competitors.
Internet tech is increasingly dominant...
Let's look at the make up of the top 10
1 Apple
2 Microsoft
3 Amazon
4 Facebook
5 Google (A shares)
6 Google (C)
7 Berkshire Hathaway
8 Johnson & Johnson
9 Visa
10 Procter & Gamble
Notice the dominance of tech? Visa is tech also in that it facilitates Internet transactions.
The current pandemic has the impact of driving businesses into HIGHER efficiency, not lower.
Zoom vs Jet travel
Your lounge vs the business lounge
Digitisation of business processes needed for location independence
Even if you're bricks and mortars you now get more efficient.
So the SPX is increasingly dominated with tech companies, and tech companies only go higher. And remember this index tracks the top 500 large caps, if you're suffering, you drop off the index, if your a high growth tech company you may come onto that index.
Everything I'm describing is real growth. Nevermind the inflationary skew the money printing is adding.
It's my contrarian thesis; needs a traditional quant with access good data to wrap numbers around it to make it valid or stupid.
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ELI5:
Every business operation on the network that earns revenue in BTC will sell BTC to pay for operational costs, this represents a constant sell pressure on the network.
Data presented here are the actual numbers.
This study illustrates how we can't just assume the 4 year halvening of miners sell pressure will just keep us locked into a 4 year cycle.
There are other important factors at play in 2021... The newer impacts will further dilute mining influence as the ecosystem matures.
I posted this map of the BTC supply distribution, but many asked "but what does this mean?".
Well, it says quite a lot, this is the whole ecosystem talking to us. Since people didn't see what I though was in plain sight, I'll break it down and add a bit more colour.
Bitcoin continues to distribute coins evenly. Publicly held and retail entities continue to gain more control of the supply while whales are reducing their control.
Remember the gold standard failed as a monetary standard due to centralisation of the supply
2) Retail drives macro cycles. When retail stack their sats at an increased rate, like they are doing right now, it's the fundamentals saying we are in the middle of a bull market.
I repeat; middle of a bull market. Traders in disbelief 2 months ago when this data was shown.
Ethereum supply shock well and truly at all time highs.
Looks like the market overpriced it in May but is probably underpricing it July / August.
Switching to an oscillator view of this, it's moving out of its no-brainer buy zone with the latest rally. But importantly, despite short term technicals being quite warm, it's far from over-bought on fundamentals.
Note: the latest supply burn from EIP-1559 is not accounted for in Glassnode data. But it should not impact these metrics just yet (~0.01% impact on this indicator for now). Glassnode will be rolling in EIP-1559 burn data soon.