Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless
AN OLD saying holds that markets are ruled by either greed or fear. Greed once governed cryptocurrencies. The price of Bitcoin, the best-known, rose from about $900 in December 2016 to $19,000 a year later. Recently, fear has been in charge. Bitcoin’s price has fallen back to around $7,000; the prices of other cryptocurrencies, which followed it on the way up, have collapsed, too. No one knows whe
Bitcoin is no longer the only game in crypto-currency town
Bitcoin is no longer the only game in crypto-currency townWhich could be the next digital coin to rule them all? IT STARTED as a joke. Dogecoin was launched in 2013 as a bitcoin parody, using as its mascot a Japanese shiba inu dog, a popular internet meme. The crypto-currency was never really used, except for tipping online, and one of its founders has called it quits. But recently its price has s
Bitcoin-futures contracts create as many risks as they mitigate
Bitcoin-futures contracts create as many risks as they mitigateAnd don’t mention tulip-bulb futures! OFTEN promoted as a way of mitigating risk, futures contracts are frequently more like new ways of gambling. That was true of a close precursor to the instrument, introduced in the Netherlands in 1636, linked to the hot investment of the day—tulip bulbs. Likewise the world’s first two futures contr
Bitcoin is a speculative asset but not yet a systemic risk
Bitcoin is a speculative asset but not yet a systemic riskIs there an investment case for the cryptocurrency? FINANCIAL markets rarely miss opportunities to make money. That is as true of cryptocurrencies as anything else. Trading in bitcoin futures began on the Cboe Global Markets this week; CME Group will launch its own futures on December 18th (see article). That has given a further boost to th
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