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Is there a cryptocurrency bubble building in 2017 and by when will it burst?

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<h1>C<a class="wiki-img" href="/mediadb/image/cd49ed14066f4988a7104024498be078/"><img alt="The Crypto Currency " height="334" src="/media/displays/cd49ed14066f4988a7104024498be078/wiki_medium.jpg" width="386" /></a>ryptocurrency Market Capitalisation Shooting Up</h1>

<p>In the last month, we saw an enormous rise in the market capitalisation of cryptocurrencies - which is the calculatory book value of crypto units x current price. The rise was particularly pronounced for Ethereum (ETH), Ripple, and Bitcoin. Is this value for "real"?</p>

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<h1>Financial Bubbles</h1>

<p><a class="wiki-img" href="/mediadb/image/02ac4bea9c404ee9aab5abcfe8633b7f/"><img alt="Internet Bubble / NASDAQ Composite Index - Copyright: Lalala666 on Wikipedia" src="/media/displays/02ac4bea9c404ee9aab5abcfe8633b7f/wiki_medium.jpg" /></a>Financial bubbles are a heaviliy researched subject. Ever since Nobel laureate Vernon Smith demonstrated in a replicable laboratory experiment how oversupply of credit will reliably produce stock exchange bubbles, our understanding has improved rapidly.</p>

<p>Current estimates that about 90% of bubbles can be attributed to this one reason, rooted in flawed government policy, failed centralist monetary, credit or tax policy measures, last observed in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis">Financial Crisis of 2007</a>. A second reason is overconfidence in a high-potential, but hard-to-understand new technology, at the peak of its initial hype cycle, as during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble">Dot-com Bubble of 2000</a> of 2000 to 2001.</p>

<h1>Bitcoin, the First Cryptocurrency</h1>

<p>Cryptocurrency are a digital asset class created (in most cases) by a decentralized blockchain. Invented by the pseudonomous Satoshi Nakamoto, the first Blockchain, Bitcoin, reached an early peak late 2013, when it rose from a market capitization of 2bn USD to 15bn USD in less than 3 months. Followed by a rapid crash to 10bn (2/3) and a slow decline the following 2 years.</p>

<h1>The Rise of New Cryptocurrencies</h1>

<p>Since 2016 a new boom has been emerging steadily, while the "Bitcoin dominance" went down with accelerating spead in favor of a more diverse currency universe. </p>

<p>While one could argue this diversification leads to more stability, the application of cryptocurrency is still an open question. Are they more than a speculative asset? Or will the current boom eventually burst because there is simply no buyer left?</p>

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<h1>Subsequent Expectations</h1>

<p>Even if a major downward correction of the broader cryptocurrency market capitalisation were to take place, if may well be that subsequently one (or more) successful cryptocurrencies re-emerge.</p>

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