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[quote=Anonymous]Here is a good recent NYT article about why Bitcoin is now falling:

Since its peak last fall, Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, has lost almost half its value. Nearly $2 trillion of wealth has evaporated from the global crypto market since October.

We have one question. What took so long? Outside of crimes and scams, the technology is useless, and its economics are even worse.

In our role as government economists, we initially kept an open mind about crypto’s potential merits. From 2021 to 2022 we sat in dozens of meetings in which crypto firms and their backers assured us that the blockchain, the technology underlying crypto, would do everything from increase access to the financial system to replace the internet as we knew it.

Yet when we asked independent experts about these claims, we encountered sharp pushback. If this technology was that revolutionary, why weren’t any of the giant tech firms using it? Were they too shortsighted to see the technological revolution unfolding before them? Or was the technology — which we learned was essentially a painfully slow and expensive database — just not that special?

Yet all of that financial and government support, accompanied by a period of soaring crypto values, still failed to win over consumers. The share of Americans holding crypto has been stuck at around 30 percent for the past four years. Demand is so slack that the owners of the heavy-duty hardware that mines new crypto are increasingly turning it into A.I. data centers. At the same time, investors worried about an A.I. bubble are increasingly ditching riskier, more speculative assets — the more speculative the asset, the earlier it was punished. That explains why Bitcoin started plummeting three weeks before tech stocks began to wobble. Clearly, despite its many wins in Washington, crypto has made little progress on its attempts to be integrated into the real economy.

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