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The Dot-Com Bubble Still Dwarfs the Cryptocurrency ‘Bubble’

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Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are a hot topic in the cryptocurrency space, where both massive profits and fraudulent scams abound — but is there really a bubble forming?


Weighing the Pros and Cons

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On one hand, ICOs allow regular people to access the venture capital space previously reserved for only those with big pockets, while providing near instantaneous liquidity.

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On the other, analysis published by Ernst & Young recently claimed that 10 percent of all funds raised through ICOs were lost or stolen — and many ICOs which actually try are simply laughable. Dr Garrick Hileman, a research associate at the University of Cambridge and who is running a $25 million ICO in his capacity as co-founder of blockchain start-up Mosaic, told The Telegraph:

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There are blatant scams, pump-and-dumps, misinformation and a lack of disclosure of conflicts of interest. But it is quite possible that this is a new channel that is going to be with us for some time. [Early-stage investing] is something that’s been traditionally reserved for millionaires and billionaires. Now the little guy is getting a crack.

If It’s a Bubble, It’s a Small One

Naysayers inside and outside of the cryptocurrency space love to throw around the Dotcom Bubble for comparison. According to them, Bitcoin is a bubble, ICOs are a bubble, and the entire cryptocurrency market is a bubble — but is it really comparable to the turn of the century?

Igor Erker of digital assets advisory firm Columbus Capital doesn’t think so.

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Erker explained to The Telegraph that today’s crypto market is worth around $500 billion, which is a far cry from the estimated $6 trillion value of the Nasdaq in 2000. Says Erker:

And, although the average crypto investor is a retail investor in absolute terms, they understand and accept the volatility of the market on a completely different level than a pension retail investor in 2000 did.

Whether there is a bubble forming or not, a market correction is coming very soon — if it hasn’t already happened yet. Still, it’s nothing to worry about. Explained Laszlo Giricz to The Telegraph:

But it’s not going to destroy the space. It’s going to be a really positive change. I strongly believe that 70 or 80 percent of the market doesn’t have any place in the blockchain space. [The coins and companies] that have been set up with the pure goal of making money will disappear.

Giricz adds that only those which “actually address real-world challenges” will survive.

Do you think there is a bubble forming in the cryptocurrency and ICO spaces? Let us know in the comments below!


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