The main reasons to Bitcoin's soar were Chinese trying to rescue their labor's income from China and the Tether scam (fractional reserve banking by a larger multiplier than in fiat).
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The Tether "scam" was never proved by the way. In fact one might even argue there is just as much evidence against it being a scam as there is for it...
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What evidence is there against the claim of a scam?
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Well the fact that they got a former FBI law firm to sign off on them having more than enough money in the bank to cover all tethers is a big one. Then you have multiple unrelated exchanges, including kraken saying there is nothing nefarious going on with tether in the crypto ecosystem. Then you have the fact that multiple very wealthy people/entities have chosen to do business with tether, and you would imagine they would have looked into it a bit before they put hundreds of millions into it... not to mention it is still operating despite a CFTC investigation as well as all kinds of negative press. If it was a scam one could reasonably assume it would have been shuttered by now. And these are just to name a few off the top of my head.
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I'm not convinced by the tether scam either as most exchanges accept it, with more adding it all the time.
The only evidence I see of any thing here is self upvoting lol
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Haha nice one! Yea I mean there has been so much talk about it and investigation already, I would think that if there was as big of a scam going on there that some of these people think, it would have been shuttered by now. Though perhaps I am just giving authorities too much credit?!
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Also much of bitcoin's trading was done in dollars in late 2017 and early 2018. That tells me that bitcoin is much more than just an Asia story or China story like it was in the past.
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The Chinese wanted to convert to dollars, so how could much of bitcoin's trading not be done in dollars in late 2017 and early 2018?
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Much of the buying was done in dollars...
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For every seller there is a buyer.
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Yes, but that means the buying coming in was in fiat dollars, the selling was in bitcoin. That does not mean Chinese money was the dominant factor flowing into bitcoin like you seem to be fixated on.
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any references to back up your claims? btc is prone to hype cycles which is what caused the high price everyone was talking about it and rushing to buy cryptos even though bitcoin didn't make sense with the fees at that time
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I agree. Boom and bust cycles are par for the course with bitcoin. It's not going away. Institutions will only buy bitcoin when they first enter and they will be the next main value drivers for crypto. Bitcoin is likely the safest bet of anything that currently exists.
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The hype was marginal compared to the factors that I mentioned.
You think it was so big because you are where it gets promoted.
The Tether scam:
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@fortified/re-fortified-brock-pierce-or-is-billionaire-bitcoin-board-member-founder-of-tether-and-alleged-pedophile-a-covert-cia-asset-20180118t181617300z
About the Chinese I heard it in one of Martin Armstrong's interviews.
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