03 June 2017

Bitcoin in the News : 2017-05 Price

At the beginning of the year I used the first post to document the previous month's price action and continued the idea in the following months, each month more amazing than the previous month. Last month's post about April -- Bitcoin in the News : 2017-04 Price -- was crazy, but this month's post is even crazier. The chart for May is shown below.


Bitcoin Price Index

The first two stories from Bitcoin price analysis (cointelegraph.com), were

Other stories had different targets: 'Bitcoin Price May Rise To $3,000'; 'Bitcoin Price Likely to Hit $3,500 This Year'; 'Investors See $4,000 Ahead'. The actual price continued to rise, with a few hiccups on the way.

The month's peak at $2700 was nearly double the price at the month's start. The month ended with the price on the rise again.

That last story explained,

OKCoin is the largest Bitcoin exchange in China which processes 31 percent of trades within the Chinese Bitcoin exchange market. In February, OKCoin and Huobi, the two largest Bitcoin exchanges in China, were flagged by the People’s Bank of China for operating a trading platform without appropriate Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) systems

The month ended with more predictions of fantastic gains for bitcoin owners: 'Bitcoin Price Could Reach $10,000 In Few Months'; 'Bitcoin Price Could Hit $100,000 in 10 Years'. Is this a classic case of supply-and-demand or an evolving example of the greater fool theory?

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