{"id":391242,"date":"2019-07-26T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=391242"},"modified":"2024-06-11T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:59:39","slug":"bitcoin-price-looking-at-a-hundredfold-jump-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/bitcoin-price-looking-at-a-hundredfold-jump-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Price Looking at a Hundredfold Jump: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bitcoin could touch the $370,000 high in the future, according to famous quantitative analyst PlanB.<\/p>\n
The Twitterati said on\u00a0Friday that each bull cycle in the bitcoin market started at so-called difficulty bottoms. The term reflects a stark drop in the bitcoin mining difficulty, which happens when miners start switching off their rigs. They do it because of unprofitability. A lower bitcoin rate, mostly, pushes small miners out of business \u2014 the ones who continue operations sell-off their bitcoin holdings for fiat money.<\/p>\n
PlanB calls the phenomenon “miner capitulation.” In a broader market, traders call it bubble burst, which means a massive supply of bitcoin becomes available at cheaper rates. The speculators buy and pump the market once again, blowing another bubble. Miners, now looking at a higher bitcoin rate, turn their mining rigs on. The hash rate and difficulty, as a result, go up, and everything comes back to normal.<\/p>\n
The current price action reflects the same pumping scenario, noted PlanB. Bitcoin formed a bottom last December, after which its price has surged by more than 200 percent already. A similar bottom-reversal situation historically pumps bitcoin by a hundredfold. Insofar, the cryptocurrency has just quadrupled from its previous cycle low, as shown in the chart below.<\/p>\n