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Bitcoin Case Study

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THE BITCOIN BUBBLE? Imagine a situation. You have just bought a car worth USD 60,000 by paying 3 Bitcoins (assuming 1 Bitcoin = USD 20,000). It has been a week and you are (apparently) happy with your car. But now one Bitcoin is worth USD 30,000. You would have surely felt – “Why didn’t I wait for just another week? I could’ve bought a better and costlier car. Damn my luck.” Welcome to the “unstable” and “unpredictable” world of crypto-currencies. Crypto-currency is basically a currency in nature and all currency should have a steady price. No buyer would like to exchange a coin that will jump sharply in the next hour. And no seller would wish to receive some currency that may plunge into the depths of Grand Canyon in a blink. Now let us …show more content…

And for the current scenario, I have a set of questions. “How are you valuing the Bitcoin? What is the basis for it? Why is it worth what it is today? Do you have any rationale or explanation for it?” I know we all are a bit blank now. The Bitcoin doesn’t have any intrinsic value. Neither does it provide any return. The stocks have the dividend. The real estate has rent. The bonds have coupons. What does Bitcoin have? NOTHING. Most of the people are not buying the value of the technology but are going with the tide and buying the hype surrounding it. This is speculating, not …show more content…

With a finite number of Bitcoins (21 million) that can be mined and the reward associated with every discovery of a block, the Bitcoin miners have the kept the market of Bitcoin going on. However, the reward (currently at 12.5 Bitcoins) shall reduce by half every 210,000 blocks. And Bitcoin mining is not a child’s play. It requires a lot of knowledge and power back-up. The miners have been reportedly consuming more electricity a year than Ireland does in the same period. This raises a fundamental question of what will happen when the cost exceeds the reward. The transaction costs will go up, the rewards will reduce, the demand will fall and so will the prices. Simple economics, you

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