Crypto miners use high-powered computers to add blocks of transaction data to the Bitcoin blockchain. Once a miner completes a new block - and provides proof of their work - they receive bitcoin as a reward. Originally, this reward was 50 bitcoin. Then it was halved to 25. Then it was halved to 12.5 bitcoin. And in May of this year, it was halved again to 6.25. This makes Bitcoin harder to mine and reduces new supply. Historically, Bitcoin prices have skyrocketed because of this. After the November 28, 2012, reward halving, Bitcoin shot up 8,357%! The cryptocurrency was trading at $12.27 at the time of the halving. One year later, on November 28, 2013, it was trading at $1,037.75. Because of this, I made sure to tell investors what would likely happen to Bitcoin when it halved in 2016... and sure enough, its price shot up nearly 3,000% from $600 to more than $19,000! That means, if history is our guide, the rest of 2020 - and even into 2021 - could be explosive for the cryptocurrency. For instance, if Bitcoin repeats the same halving cycle as it did in 2016, the cryptocurrency could top $340,000. Obviously, that's an extreme scenario. But beyond the reward halving, digital gold bugs have been blessed with a bevy of good new in 2020. 346 Million Potential UsersPayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL) has had a partnership with Bitcoin for years. And now its peer-to-peer platform Venmo is going to start rolling out Bitcoin use. PayPal is also partnering with Paxos to allow cryptocurrency trading through Paxos' new brokerage service. This is an economy of scale here. Somewhere between 30 million and 35 million people own cryptocurrencies. PayPal now has 346 million active accounts. The number of people using its service has accelerated during the pandemic. And that's just the latest good news for Bitcoin. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released a statement allowing banks to begin holding cryptocurrencies for customers. And the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is evaluating 30 different blockchain technologies to see whether it can support the digital dollar. All of this means... the Bitcoin bull is back! The cryptocurrency recently set a 52-week high of $12,359. And already in 2020, digital gold has rocketed 63.6% higher! Despite these big moves, we're still roughly 50% from the cryptocurrency's all-time highs. But that may be for only a little while longer. Bitcoin was range-bound between $9,000 and $10,000 for a couple of months. And I've been patiently waiting for a solid breakout above this level. Now that this breakout is under our belts, I believe there's potential for new highs on the horizon. We have a perfect storm of bullish news for Bitcoin. And we're still roughly 50% below those all-time highs. I'm not banking on a $340,000 price. But I'll be more than content with around $20,000 near this year's end. That's well within reason. Here's to high returns, Matthew |
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