The previous bear market came in parallel with a period of a lot of extremely good news. There is a huge divergence between fundamentals and price over the last months (Read the title sarcastic, I have no Idea what the price will do). The fact that the market makes no sense is annoying when you try to trade, but it opens up a HUGE opportunity for investors!
Divergence between fundamentals and price creates huge undervaluation
What happens when the price tanks and the news is extremely good? The good news indicates that the Bitcoin protocol gets further improved and adoption grows. This means that the Bitcoin network becomes more valuable overall.
The fact that the price is going down while the value is going up means that it becomes a better buy every dollar that a bitcoin becomes cheaper! Investors shouldn’t be full of fear these days, but the greed of the end of 2017 would make way more sense!
But Bitcoin is not getting better……It is dying……..
Something that is dying goes backwards right?
I think 2017 was the year of mass attention and 2018 will be the year of mass adoption!
As you can see the real value of Bitcoin in 2018 is way higher than the real value in 2017, but the price is lower. The price could go lower over the weeks or months to come, but I am extremely confident that it will go up in the long term, and not just a little bit……
Some other interesting indicators
There are some indicators that suggest that Bitcoin is extremely cheap now. I pick some that are created by people in the space I really respect. Also these indicators make a lot of sense to me.
Mayer multiple
Take the price and divide it with the 200 day moving average. The result of this is the multiple. This multiple filters the noise out of the trend and makes it easy to visualize wether Bitcoin is overvalued or undervalued. Yesterday I published a protocol to invest in Bitcoin and gold. It will allocate your funds to Bitcoin when it is undervalued and to gold when Bitcoin is overvalued:
The multiple is 0.92 and this is cheap. The moderate multiple of the entire history is 1.47, so 13.637 USD per Bitcoin should be a fair price according to this measure. Furthermore, the pricing has only been lower than this 25% of the time. You can see the figures here:
Bitcoin misery index
This index is created by Wallstreet strategist Thomas Lee. This indicator measures how misery bitcoin holders feel. It’s not needed to say that holders are more misery when the price is low. When the index is extremely low, this signals a huge buy signal.
Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful…..
And that is exactly what you do when you trade on this index. When the index is extremely low others are fearful, so you should buy! You can see that in the past the price has rocketed after this signal:
So, what is the outlook?
For the short term I don’t dare to make predictions, but for the long term I am very confident. The markets are very unpredictable because they are not reacting to fundamentals at all, but eventually the price of an asset will always follow the true value. This means the price will have to go up!
And what is the good news today?
This:
Wordpress websites can now accept instant bitcoin payments
This is super good news because around 30% of the websites is build in Wordpress. There are already plugins to accept cryptocurrencies, but because of the confirmations this is complicated to use and thus legacy payments are often more user friendly.
Lightning payments are as good as free (fraction of a cent fee) and instant. The fact that it is instant means that the customer don’t need to set a fee, wait for the confirmation (s) and watch the block explorer. This will greatly simplify the proces and make it MORE user-friendly than legacy payment methods. Half way this year Lightning wallet are expected, then this could really take off and lead to mass adoption!
And also some less good, but hilarious news came out:
This:
bitcoin,com wallet not support bitcoin core anymore, only Bitcoin Cash
Will Bitcoin,com go under together with Bcash?
In the previous months some influenzal Bcash proponents that were shilling Bcash and attacking Bitcoin have quit this activity. Jihan Wu started to accept USD for his miners beside Bcash and Jeff Berwick came out that he was bullish BTC again and didn't shill for Bcash since. There are many problems for Bcash at the moment, I recently wrote about it HERE and HERE.
Also the price is tanking and bullish fundamentals for Bcash are hard to find. You should expect more people to leave the sinking ship, but Roger Ver and his Bitcoin,com did exactly the opposite: They went all in LOL.
Looks like the hartbeat of a dying patient (The orange line = against BTC). The few beats are pump and dump events to keep this useless coin alive. There were a few pathetic efforts in the last month, but they terribly failed. Bitmain and Coinbase can’t misbehave anymore because of upcoming competition and fundamentals are weak. Bitcoin,com will go under with Bcash alone? RIP
Disclaimer
This is not investing advice, just my view on the market.
To much stress during the recent crash?
Follow my Diversification Protocol, an update every week!
Buy and store gold securely in Singapore with Bitcoin
Bullionstar
Store your Bitcoins securely
Ledger hardware wallet
Trezor hardware wallet
Ensure your privacy with VPN and pay with crypto
Torguard
Like this post? UPVOTE AND RESTEEM!
Something to add? LEAVE A COMMENT!
I’d love it if btc took another dive to the $7500 range there are some Alts that I wanted but want them cheaper
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I agree Im holding bitcoin, ripple, eos and a few more, and I think the pattern of the past will repeat itself. Bitcoin was in the $5000 range not long ago, we need a catalyst to boost the price, then we are golden.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
finally some good news
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
great news again. Crypto/BTC is a great way.The earliest way to get rich and not just make money with crypyo is to buy BTC and hold for year or two..........thank you a lot
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Exactly! imagine that you were buying 100 dollars of BTC every month from 2014, you would be extremely wealthy today! I think we are at the same point in the cycle as in 2014 after the crash.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
it great news for me. i am a very small investor. so if the price fall i am very worry. thank u for this information
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I'm happy that it is useful for you! hope you will do wel with your investment
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Hopefully this 2018 we all thank you for sharing
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Yess very good news man 🙏🙏
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I agree 2018 this year will be the adoption year
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Yes, everything is indicating this, and adoption will cause higher prices
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Adoption causes lower prices at this stage, this is a common misperception reflecting inherent misunderstanding of how currencies work. We will write an article about this soon as its widely been accepted as gospel that adoption equals price increase when in fact it means the opposite for quite some time.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Thank you for sharing I really appreciate
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Good news thanks for this information.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
it seems from the bitcoin price change, the beginning of an investor's success to invest in bitcoin, because I think the price will also soar in the beginning of this one, hopefully and hopefully.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I think the price will trend back upwards when big players like Steam announce that they are re-enabling the ability to buy stuff with bitcoin. At present they're still in wait-and-see mode. They don't think the low fees are permanent.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I too am super bullish on bitcoin.this is the accumulation phase,i am buying regularly at these levels.unlike most people I would be happy for bitcoin to stay fairly low for a while an then🚀
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Good news my friend and useful post like always . Congratulations @michiel
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Thank you for this superb news Mr @michiel keep posting this kind of informative news 😘
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Mayer multiple isn't fundamentals it's technicals. Those two things couldn't be farther apart.
Adoption of bitcoin, in say retail or Wordpress, would stabilize the price and make it be less volatile. While this would be good for bitcoins market share of WW transactions it would actually make the price drift slowly but surely lower. This is bc speculators wouldn't get the volatility addiction fix they need and would exit and there are a LOT more of them than transactional demand right now.
We don't have a great opinion on BTC in the short term, but longer term the price will go down from here. Your logic is interesting from a short term perspective tho and you are correct about Segwit and LN improvements. But again, those improvements serve BTC transactions market share, not BTC price. This will become a VERY important distinction.
Thx for posting.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Bitcoin Cash vs Bitcoin...The Great Scaling Debate:
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@workin2005/bitcoin-btc-vs-bitcoin-cash-bch-the-great-block-size-debate
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
i am also looking forward to invest
it is time to remain calm and trust crypto
it will soon take off
your posts are really making us aware about crypto
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Your post is good, I like and I upvote just @steemitboard. @indosiar and @lektolek Also upvote.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Its very possible that the price of bitcoin will go lower in the short term. But we have a long way to go in 2018 and I think before the end of this year we will see another epic rise in bitcoin. Very quietly in the background companies like alibaba, google, microsoft, and others are either involved with mining, developing blockchain technology or accepting bitcoin as a form of payment. https://www.investopedia.com/news/alibaba-launching-crypto-platform/
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Good news! Keep posting
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I love this post man
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Congratulations @michiel, this post is the forth most rewarded post (based on pending payouts) in the last 12 hours written by a Superuser account holder (accounts that hold between 1 and 10 Mega Vests). The total number of posts by Superuser account holders during this period was 1244 and the total pending payments to posts in this category was $6953.53. To see the full list of highest paid posts across all accounts categories, click here.
If you do not wish to receive these messages in future, please reply stop to this comment.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
It is so informative post thank you so much for sharing, amazing news it's so helpful
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Yes and i one of those with a website built on wordpress that accepts bitcoin litecoin and bitcoin cash :)
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Спасибо автору за интересную информацию! Очень надеюсь, что позитивные новости сыграют свою роль на повышение цены.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
thanks! I'll buy up to 13,000 USD :)
👍
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
If bitcoin can get more legitimate backing with companies like wordpress this makes bitcoin more attractive to the mainstream. Great article.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
People who liked this post also liked:
Ezira Hangout #1 | Ezira: State of the Network | 2018-4-1 | 1PM UTC | EZIRA prizes by @dahaz159
Bitcoin's dirty secret: Disgusting images found on the blockchain? by @cryptonomics1
Up and down we go... by @hansdewet
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Had a great read, Michiel. Thanks!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
News is very interesting to invest gold with bitcoin, it makes sense to see the history of bitcoin price development. thanks @michiel, successful sekalu dari @mukhtarilyas #mukhtarilyas
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Great analysis about bitcoin. It enhances our crypto knowledge. Thanks sir @michiel for sharing the analytic post.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
The best thing we can all hope for is that Bitcoin and Alts CRASH....the lower it goes now the cheaper we can buy it again for the next MONSTER RUN in a year or so.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit