Since many of you are sick of hearing about Bitcoin, I promise this is my last post on the topic for a while. That said, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the unusually lucrative arbitrage trade that is largely responsible for sending Bitcoin parabolic. I glossed over it in my last post and given the questions that I’ve received, a full post on the topic was more than necessary—especially as the mechanism is really quite fascinating.
To start with, I believe that Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC – USA) is unique in the world of finance in that it facilitates an oddly reflexive Ponzi Scheme. Since we all know what a Ponzi Scheme is, I’m going to gloss over the terminology and instead focus on the concept of reflexivity. Before George Soros focused on destroying American society, he was a remarkably successful investor. His theory of reflexivity asserts that prices do in fact influence the fundamentals and that this newly influenced set of fundamentals then proceeds to change expectations, thus influencing prices; the process continues in a self-reinforcing pattern. In the case of Bitcoin, GBTC is the transmission mechanism for this reflexivity and once you understand how this game works, you’ll realize that Bitcoin is going much higher before it collapses.
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