Pages:
Author

Topic: Why Bubbles Can Be Good - Using Bitcoin's 2011 Bubble - page 2. (Read 1024 times)

newbie
Activity: 40
Merit: 0
Bubbles are bad because the resources that a bubble wastes dwarf whatever benefits you may find.

It depends.

This thinking assumes that a re-allocation of resources is wasteful.  This may not be correct.  If a person who creates opportunity gains, while a person who only takes opportunity loses, the re-allocation may have created even more wealth.
legendary
Activity: 4438
Merit: 3387
Bubbles are bad because the resources that a bubble wastes dwarf whatever benefits you may find.
legendary
Activity: 1153
Merit: 1012
It's not specifically bubbles that lend credibility to project and ideas. It's simply the perception of value. But it's true that it's irrelevant if this value perception is created artificially or based on real fundamentals.

So even artificial bubbles can have a lasting positive effect on projects/ideas. However, sometimes the burst of a bubble can have a severely negative psychological impact, deterring people from further adherence on the projects or ideas in question. Sometimes this promotes a selective process and leads to transformation - giving birth to new and better ideas. But this is not always the case.

I clearly prefer real fundamentals over artificial growth. To me it seems positive that Bitcoin's upward momentum has slowed down a bit in the past (this seems to be changing right now...).
sr. member
Activity: 392
Merit: 250
I don't think this time it's a bubble...

Sure the price goes up, but not nearly as fast as it did in 2011.
And it basically goes up for a reason: btc is stable, none of the apocalyptic facts that were sure to happen happened, countries start taking it into account.

Why shouldn't it rise?
newbie
Activity: 40
Merit: 0
In general, a bubble creates a feeling of success and prosperity, even though it's only temporary.  Like we saw in bitcoin's 2011 bubble, people overlook reality and give projects and ideas a feeling of success, even though it cannot last because it won't be able to sustain the momentum.  The good projects and ideas ignore this, knowing its temporary; the bad projects do not.  Bad projects become caught up in the bubble, but when it pops and shown to be the fake players they were all along.

The dot com bubble, which people tend to act like was so destructive actually invalidated a lot of bad ideas.  We'll always be richer when bad ideas fail because it makes room for good ideas.  The last thing we want is bad ideas to survive because of low or negative interest rates, or because institutions try to create perfect stability, which keeps bad ideas in existence.  Can bubbles be painful?  Yes, but the pain is only temporary and by removing bad players, it's a temporary pain that increases wealth (Hebrews 12:11).
Pages:
Jump to: