Bloomberg email :( FOMO24 Jun 2021 06:59
Bitcoin Tests the Diamond-Handed
Trading crypto is kind of like going to the Redneck Rave. It’s crazy-fun for a while, but every now and then you get impaled by a log.
After soaring 500% in 2020 and the first half of 2021, Bitcoin has collapsed 50% in two months. It recently suffered the dreaded Death Cross, which technical analysts consider a far worse omen than the Spider Eye, a signal I may or may not have just made up. Either way, it’s bad and suggests the coin could lose half its value again, because reasons. Nothing really makes sense with an asset jumpier than the Blue Holler Offroad Park after sundown.
And with overnight Dogecoin millionaires turning back into overnight Dogecoin thousandaires, the FOMO that has fueled so much of Bitcoin’s rise has lost its sting, notes Lionel Laurent. Governments are giving Bitcoin the stink eye, and so is Elon Musk. Bitcoins are disappearing mysteriously. All the “fundamental” excuses for gambling on crypto — It’s a store of value! The dollar is dying! — keep collapsing one by one. Bitcoin will surely bounce back, like an overturned ATV in a mudhole. But watch for Death Crosses and impaling logs along the way.