San Diego Union-Tribune (Sunday)
IS THE ALLURE OF CRYPTOCURRENCY FADING?
Prices and trading activity of cryptocurrencies, like other speculative assets, react to changes in interest rates, forecasts of future economic conditions and uncertainty. Investor sentiment toward cryptocurrencies will fluctuate over time, leading to changes in the volume of inflows into these markets. However, aggregate investor interest remains strong. Derivatives now offer additional ways to gain exposure to cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency regulations adopted in the future may have the greatest impact on the pace of expansion.
San Diego State University
As an investable commodity, it smells like tulips. While it will have a permanent place in world currency, its appeal as an investment vehicle with limitless upside is bound to fade. The early investors have often won big. Its promise is in its basic premise of decoupling money from banks or government, making it a very fungible world currency.
London Moeder Advisors
I compare it to the public perception of a Ponzi scheme. Too good to be true. And with trusted financial advisers not pushing the crypto products, and usually stating buy at your own risk, the product will never become mainstream. It feels like such a desperate move for people with limited resources to take hardearned dollars and roll the dice on whether the product, for unknown reasons, will soar or crash on a daily basis.
Manpower
Cryptocurrencies continue to expand as emerging currency. There are now thousands of cryptos in the asset class. Though still far from being used as mainstream sources of payment, last year saw more U.S. businesses accepting cryptocurrency like bitcoin. A trend likely to increase. (The) prediction is more countries will follow in accepting the currency as legal tender. All this is not to say cryptocurrency will escape the topsy-turvy — perhaps even topping — market position we have seen.
Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation
Cryptocurrency represents a shift in the way value is created and transferred. Fundamentally, cryptocurrency is built on an underlying protocol called blockchain, which enables people to transfer digital ownership of anything without the need for a middleman. Regardless of the success or failure of any specific digital currency, their existence is not a fad. This technology is going to change how transactions, even business models, function.
Weave Growth