Simple money makes it easy with bitcoin and crypto markets

This is an opinion piece by Adam Taha, host of a Bitcoin podcast in Arabic and a contributor to Bitcoin Magazine.

Luna’s infamous collapse was followed by an implosion at Celsius, then suddenly Tron showed signs of death and now Three Arrows Capital is in major financial trouble. Nobody knows Who is Next, but one thing is for sure: more pain is coming. Current market conditions reveal capital and technological problems in the cryptocurrency world. Things are not good in the Web3 cap.

What about bitcoin? For the record, bitcoin is not crypto. It is important to distinguish between the two. When I say “crypto”, I mean digital products and innovations that rely on using blockchain technologies to run their projects. At the time of writing, there are 19,939 cryptocurrency projects out there, most of which have emerged in the last 12 months. Why are many of these companies struggling now? How do they fail at a relatively similar time? Are all these projects and companies scams? Was it the Federal Reserve that caused this? The answer is simple, no. As I said, the market did not create problems in Web3 and crypto projects, the market simply revealed rotten underneath. The problem is a liquidity problem and not necessarily a technical one. We witnessed a “gold rush” in the last market run-up from autumn 2020 to spring 2022. The euphoric rush to the market meant higher competition. Higher competition created an environment where two things emerged:

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