Bitcoin and the crisis of tulips

"What the hell is going on?" Some experts question before climbing from 0 to almost $ 1,000 that has starred this virtual currency in less than a year.

A few months ago, when the Bitcoin phenomenon began to be known, some of our users were asked in Investment Strategies forums where this was going ...

Well, today we can say that Bitcoin has been exceeded for the first time in PayPal transaction volume, thanks to moves that have exceeded 416 million dollars dela fictitious currency against the real-397-million. Nothing to do, if anything, with giants such as Mastercard and led the ranking in which the British company represents only one percent of the pie.

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The tour ' quoted ' this coin really starts in late 2012 when he began to assert more than zero in the market. So , in April 2013 took the first campanazo.Fue when many analysts linked to a classic history of fraud, although none of them no guarantees that this is indeed the future : the Ponzi scheme . " BitCoin is conceived precisely as a free and independent currency of established power , allowing direct transactions between the holders out of any legislation , tax or supervision," then claimed by Javier Flores , Head of Service Study and Analysis ASINVER .
Apart from the benefits accruing in the future or whether it is a new bubble over , his name has been frequently associated with money laundering by drug traffickers . As set out in a report prepared by the U.S. CNN , China has become the main market operations and strange how a government like Beijing has refused to intervene the currency of dubious origin .
This week , as we read in The Wall Street Journal, Bitcoin achieved unprecedented support . The very President of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke , sent a letter to U.S. Senators arguing in its support for this coin " represent a long-term promise if innovations promote a faster payments system , safe and efficient " . A milestone - perhaps - unexpected for Bitcoin .

Does Bitcoin is the new ' tulip bubble '?Not since the seventeenth century to find the context in which he lived and suffered the so-called ' crisis of the tulips ' .
The story is so simple that we already know . Suddenly , as a result of a virus affecting these flowers , tulips began to take different shapes and colors. They became a fashion and price grew exponentially. A tulip bulb came to be sold for the price equivalent to 24 tons of wheat.
Now, while preparing his second Bitcoin Black Friday with an agreement with more than 150 companies , their price is above $ 900 after the last flip in mid-November . Will Christmas be the preamble to his prick ?

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BUBBLE OF TULIPS