What are people's thoughts on the potential "Gamma Squeeze" that might occur for Bitcoin on the 29 March 2024?
The article says it could cause Bitcoin to go up massively on that day.
The US federal treasury is looking to introduce a 30% excise on electricity used for "digital asset mining", which would theoretically require miners in the US to report how much electricity their PC resources used and how much they paid for it.
One of the primary bear cases (in my opinion) for the cryptocurrency space is the insane amounts of energy we devote to mining (for those interested, accounts for 2.3% of all electricity in the USA). Globally, you say? 20GW, which is scarily close to Australia's total current demand for energy across the board.
Still think this is true
It's too long to screen shot, but further down this thread (about 12m ago) I did a rough and ready expected value calculation. You can use whatever assumptions you prefer, but even despite the recent price action you can still make a reasonable case for a lot further upside. Or not, depending on how bearish you are.
My point is that *if* bitcoin is something you're curious about, don't let price anchoring get in the way of things. As with stocks, we've seen that the big winners always seem expensive and it always feels like you've missed the bus.
A$100k/BTC seems like an awful lot for something entirely non-physical, but the network market value is basically the same as Facebook (Meta). Its ~10% the market cap of gold.
And then you have:
I find it fascinating to the point of distraction. I would never advocate for anyone to go "all in", but at this stage of the adoption curve, a small allocation is entirely rational in my opinion (not advice!)