Bitcoin’s Rise To Record Highs In Context

After a two-year long bear market, bitcoin came roaring back in 2016, and has been climbing ever since.
The digital currency reached a new all-time high above $4,650 on Tuesday, an increase of more than 350% year-to-date. The sheer intensity of its gains has inspired some comparisons to the digital currency’s initial run-up, which ended with the collapse of bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox in early 2014, marking the end of the first bitcoin bull market.
Given bitcoin’s torrid advance, analysts from Bespoke Investments attempted to put its gains in context in a chart. The results are striking: Compared with infamous asset bubbles like tech stocks in the 1990s, bitcoin has climbed much further in far less time. According to Bloomberg, ‘there’s almost no comparison’ between bitcoin and the tech-stock bubble.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 30, 2017.

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