Awesome read.
The most recent crypto-crime trend: the ability to surreptitiously install illicit Monero miners on unsuspecting computers around the world. The worst part? Targets often are unaware that they’ve been hacked.
Cryptomining is both profitable and easy (enough) to mount. As a result, it is rapidly replacing ransomware as the crypto-related cybercrime of choice.
A large number of compromised devices working together is known as a botnet. The Monero mining botnet is extremely large, made up mostly of Microsoft Windows servers spread around the globe.
The whole bull run in bitcoins has ended today after google bans crypto ads, when a weekly trendline was broken after a mightly fight of the bulls and the bears happened for the trendline , and untimately the bulls gave up…
Where ever the prices goes from here, the acceleration we saw in the trendline is gone,and now, we will see a downtrendline acting as a resistance…
Also note the peculiar pattern, that the daily trenline broke on the day of the FB ban news and this weekly trendline on the google news…
We are entering a new era, where i like to believe, the bubble is bursting slowly…
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IMO one of the reasons why the crypto idea took off was because of the underlying common knowledge that tech will eat up other businesses surely and steadily. Over the past 6-7 years, people have come around to believe that eventually technology will disrupt most businesses, make most of the existing models obsolete and that existing tech behemoths will soon start calling the shots in what were non tech domains in the classical sense.
We are seeing signs that the tech rally in the US may finally be breaking, as investors start according higher probability to the scenario that tech companies may not wield an inordinate amount of influence after all, this will impact valuations across a host of other segments which may not be directly connected with tech.
Some of them could be e-commerce and crypto. It will be very tough to prove this linkage fundamentally but intuitively this must make sense. Once the common knowledge hypothesis about the omnipotence and omnipresence of tech firms (essentially the FANG and like stories across the world) starts to weaken, one may see a trickle down effect in related areas as well. I don’t think crypto as an idea would have been accepted if it weren’t for the build up provided by the leading tech companies, crypto as an idea would just have not flown prior to say 2010.
Very interested in seeing how this linkage plays out from here. All we need is a sustained fall in the NASDAQ to test this out
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Saw a nice short interview on BloombergQuint of Prof Damodaran. I like the point he made. Currency is a) Store of value b) Medium of exchange, something which we learnt perhaps in standard 9 and have failed to think about with respect to cryptos these days. Cryptos have failed both so far.
Most of us are speculators in cryptos. Some of us have been accidentally lucky and hence we call ourselves investors which as Prof Damodaran says is supposed to be ‘Speculative Investor’.
Regards
Deepak
This is where the Professors expressed his views on Cryptos first:
This article has already been shared on this thread on 26-Oct-2017.
Oh, weird. When I copied the link, it didn’t show that this was already there in the thread. Or maybe I missed it.
Thank you anyway for pointing out.
I think most of us have agreed that Bitcoin cannot work as a currency and it doesn’t fulfill the basic characteristics to be one.
However, what a lot of crypto investors equate Bitcoin with is Gold. It has more in common with Gold than it does with currency. Eg - Limited supply, hedge against regular currency, mining, etc. The reason Gold has value is because people believe it has value. I think this fact has been iterated by a lot of major investors like the Winklevoss Twins and Peter Thiel.
In case Bitcoin does become digital Gold, here are some numbers. The market cap of Gold is 17 trillion dollars and hence, bitcoin has a long way to go.
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