{"id":408837,"date":"2019-12-26T18:47:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T18:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktsl888.com\/?p=408837"},"modified":"2024-06-11T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:35:50","slug":"early-bitcoin-adopter-cold-water-halving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktsl888.com\/news\/early-bitcoin-adopter-cold-water-halving\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Bitcoin Adopter Throws Cold Water On Halving Narrative; Here’s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

As NewsBTC has covered over the past few weeks, a debate has erupted around Bitcoin’s impending block reward reduction. Informally known as the “halving” or the “halvening,” every four years the number of BTC issued per block (every 10 minutes or so) gets cut in half, resulting in a negative supply shock on the market.<\/p>\n

Analysts are currently divided over whether or not it will affect the underlying BTC price in a positive way \u2014 we just published another report<\/a> on why the halving isn’t priced in from a derivatives perspective.<\/p>\n

While bulls have a good argument due to the Stock to Flow model popularized by pseudonymous quantitative analyst PlanB, a prominent early Bitcoin adopter recently came out in the side of bears, arguing that the halving will not help BTC investors.<\/p>\n

Related Reading: Bitcoin Price Likely to Jump After Christmas; Here\u2019s Why<\/a><\/h6>\n

“First Bitcoin Startup Investor” Bashes Halving Narrative<\/h2>\n

Roger Ver, an early Bitcoin evangelist who invested in Blockchain.com, Bitcoin.com, BitPay, amongst other crypto companies, recently remarked<\/a> that he sees a “very real possibility the price of Bitcoin Core (BTC) does not go up after the halving.” This comment was made echoing a remark made by Melem Demirors of CoinShares, who cited financial derivatives as a potential dampener on the positive effects of the halving.<\/p>\n

The now Japan-based Ver, trying to build out his own thesis on the matter, remarked that he thinks the price won’t up because ” the blocks are full and there is no room for additional commerce to take place on chain.” With this, he is seemingly referring to the sentiment that the economic activity of a chain will affect the price of the asset that is based on top of it.<\/p>\n

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There is a very real possibility the price of Bitcoin Core does not go up after halving. <\/p>\n

For the first time, the blocks are full and there is no room for additional commerce to take place on chain.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin Cash on the other hand, has
an amazing future ahead.
https:\/\/t.co\/z4tC7jij7d<\/a><\/p>\n

— Roger Ver (@rogerkver) December 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n