What's happening is that the futures markets are going short on bitcoin and 3 other of the top coins. Before the futures markets, it was all bulls. With the futures markets the bears are making themselves heard.
Besides, what good is a currency if it keeps going up in value? Volatility is bad for business. With bitcoin trading in a narrow range, the value is predictable, and that makes it usable.
What you really want is for people to use bitcoin right? A stable value will encourage that to happen. What you want is transaction demand, not speculation demand.
Wow, awesome. Thanks for taking the time to post this on this guy's sorry blog where he posts pictures of watches! . Almost like a tree falling in the forest with no one around. :)
Anyhow I appreciate you clear explanation.
Hah! That was really funny. Thanks for the laughs!
Anyway, I really do hope people figure this part out.
Unfortunately, this is not an opinion I see posted very often...well, EVER?!?! It's really kind of common sense though, right? :)
Have a good weekend dude!
Here is the extended version...
http://busy.org/@digitalfirehose/speculation-demand-transaction-demand-and-steem