#btcusd: Should we expect another leg up this year?
I think not:
1. If the stock market is like an avg 2nd year presidential year, it will move sideways. #btc is moved by similar mechanisms/confounders and is unlikely to behave very differently.
2. #btc just came out of a bull market.
The logical next thing to happen is a bear market, not another bull market.
However: This bull market was weaker than previous ones, which weakly suggests the bear market might also be weaker. hcburger.com/blog/powerlaw
There seems to be a lot of hope that another leg up might be happening anytime soon, but this seems to be based mostly on wishful thinking (as far as I can tell).
Another move down or prolonged sideways movement is more likely than a strong move up.
Predictions/narratives/models based on exponential (i.e. non-diminishing) growth will continue to fare very poorly.
Sideways or downwards movement is compatible with DIMINISHING returns, which HAS fared very well.
The popular S2F model is not likely to fare well by end of year, as predicted (in Feb 2020): hcburger.com/blog/s2fdecomp…
I have been criticizing the forecasts of S2F model since 2019, but I don't agree with this article. It arrives at some correct conclusions based on wrong arguments.
Let me elaborate.👇 bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/why-bi…
The article claims that the S2F model is a tautology, and therefore totally nonsensical: "In layman’s terms PlanB is essentially asserting that “Stock is a function of Stock.”"
But is S2F really a tautology?
Simply writing down the mathematical expression and re-arranging a bit shows us that this is NOT the case. S2F is NOT a tautology. It does NOT state that stock is a function of stock.
1/ #Bitcoin 's price history is full of time based power laws. Inspired by Sornette et al. I looked for bubbles and anti-bubbles that can be described by power laws.
Plenty of them!
Bubbles and anti-bubbles are short-lived. The long-term power-law governs all of bitcoin's history
2/ Same plots in log-log scale. #Bitcoin appears to currently be in a bubble. Bubbles ultimately deflate in an anti-bubble.
3/ Sornette models bubbles in financial markets with time based power laws that have a critical time point in the future. Price accelerates rapidly when approaching this critical time point, reaching a singularity at the critical point. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_So…
1/ I realized that my last article about #bitcoin's diminishing returns and volatility was a bit too long. I'll try to make it a bit shorter, in tweet form, here. medium.com/coinmonks/bitc…
2/ Conclusions of the article:
- #btc grows slower and slower, long-term
- short-term volatility decreases over time
- these trends should continue in the future due to ever higher capital requirements
3/ Diminishing returns implies much lower future #btc prices compared to NON-diminishing returns.
Bitcoin's power-law corridor of growth used diminishing returns. We'll see more evidence for diminishing returns here. medium.com/coinmonks/bitc…