Dumping Euros and British Pounds in Record Numbers to Buy Bitcoin, What’s It Mean?

Investors Ditch the Euro and Pound for Bitcoin in Record Numbers

Please consider Investors Ditch the Euro and Pound for Bitcoin in Record Numbers

“As these individuals from the UK and EU see the value of their currency collapsing, they effectively selling the pound and euro for Bitcoin. If this were just a trade to capture the volatility, we would have seen similar spikes in May 2021 and certainly in March 2020.”

I counted 35 repeats of this Tweet.

Those Tweets all stemmed from this one.

What It Means – Two Choices

  1. Given that Bitcoin is barely holding $19K as I type ($19,200), it means that it takes record buying just to hold the price where it is.
  2. Alternatively, it means that this record buying is insufficient in size to matter. 

Either way, this news repeated at least 35 times, is at best meaningless (case number two).

Assume record buying in Pounds and Euros matters. Then for price to be struggling in this price zone implies others are dumping Bitcoin enough to matter. 

So if record buying matters, then who wants out at $19,000 enough to offset the British Pound and Euro buyers?

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The Pragmatic Case 

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RonJ
RonJ
3 years ago
What is a pet rock worth these days?
KidHorn
KidHorn
3 years ago
Bitcoin and other cryptos are just like pets.com from the nasdaq bubble. Completely worthless. Doesn’t mean there aren’t fools willing to buy it.
I never understood how a company could profit from shipping 20 lb bags of dog food for free. Just like I don’t understand how cryptos have any value.
Captain Ahab
Captain Ahab
3 years ago
One possible explanation is panic is beginning to set in. Low hanging fruit get taken first–those not fiscally aware. Of course, it could also be part of a central bank conspiracy, or an effort by bitcoin suckers to drive demand, or…
vanderlyn
vanderlyn
3 years ago
saylor is a great con man. he’s fun to watch. like trump and some other really great grifters……
PapaDave
PapaDave
3 years ago
Forget Bitcoin. Forget gold. Got oil?
Christoball
Christoball
3 years ago
Reply to  PapaDave
Got Firewood???
Scooot
Scooot
3 years ago
The clam is probably wrong and there wasn’t a flight to Bitcoin from Sterling/Euro. Bitcoin is priced in dollars so as Sterling falls against the dollar the BTC/£ price rises without a trade taking place. The volume was probably Sterling based holders of BTC taking advantage of the price spike after it had risen by selling BTC against Sterling.
MPO45
MPO45
3 years ago
The internet whispers Lehman redeux. Pay attention: PANIC.
Got PUTS?
MarkraD
MarkraD
3 years ago
Reply to  MPO45
I knew it was going to come back to bite us when nothing was done about the “TBTF” problem back in ’08. Not to mention the wrist slapping of C-suites that let it happen and benefitted from it.
MPO45
MPO45
3 years ago
Reply to  MarkraD
Plenty of time to buy puts and profit. don’t fight the fed, just profit from it. Get onboard the money train or stay at station poverty. Next stop profits….all aboard.
Choo! Choo!
MarkraD
MarkraD
3 years ago
Reply to  MPO45
I’m net short once SPX didn’t hold 4300, but had already gained in this year’s slump, I had no doubt whatsoever the crazy steep surge from Covid stimulus was too much in too short a time. Granted, I did not think the Fed was going to react this radically.
This is affecting debt burdened businesses, in turn, a chain reaction, nothing like ’08, but still…
JackWebb
JackWebb
3 years ago
Reply to  MPO45
For a time (how long, I forget as I write) CS owned First Boston, an I-bank. First Boston put the i-bank side directly in charge of research analyst compensation. When I learned of it 20 years ago, I wrote off CS First Boston. It takes a while to bring the whole structure down.
Mike 2112
Mike 2112
3 years ago
The Euro may be on shakier ground than many realize. Italy and Sweden have elected Euro skeptics and Poland and Hungary are on the EU’s naughty list over immigration as well.
If this keeps up and if energy inflation persists there may be more countries telling Brussels to fog off.
This is a continent that started 2 world wars in the last 100 yrs. Both wars in and of themselves are far more extreme responses than simply leaving the EU, so dont completely tune out this possibility.
JackWebb
JackWebb
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike 2112
I have never, not even once, taken the EU at anything close to face value. European “integration” is a thin veneer. One admittedly superficial marker comes from 15 or so trips there on business and holiday. I joke to others here in America that if you sit back and listen, it won’t take long to figure out who the people in EU country X hates in EU country Y.

For the American tourist or businessman, the trick is to figure out where the fault lines are and use them, if for nothing more than a free glass of wine or pint of ale.

You’re in Scotland? “We were just in London. You pretty much have to go through there, like it or not. London! Great museums. Them English had great taste in theft. But London! Now there’s a city with all four cheeks sucked in.”

You’re in Milan? “We were just in Rome. Saw the sights, and it was interesting. But the garbage! The place stinks! Nothing works!”

You’re in Rome? “We were just in Milan. The streets are interesting, and the food is excellent, just as it is anywhere in Italy. But I’ve never seen such a bunch of snobs!”

It goes on. If it were just that, it’d be amusing. But look at the Europeans. Every hundred years or so, they go nuts.

Christoball
Christoball
3 years ago
Reply to  JackWebb
It is worse than that. The people in Marseille don’t like people from Paris. The people from Innsbruck don’t like the people from Venice.
Captain Ahab
Captain Ahab
3 years ago
Reply to  JackWebb
Deriding other places would never happen in the US… Except for Chicago, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Philly, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, any town south of the Mason Dixon,…
JackWebb
JackWebb
3 years ago
Reply to  Captain Ahab
I think it has a considerably deeper feel in Europe, although I’d freely admit that the divisions are growing here. Still nothing quite like the time I was at lunch in Milan with two Italian clients.

“This is my third time in Milan, and it keeps growing on me. Especially the food. I’ve never been to Rome, and am really looking forward to going.”

(One client literally spits on the floor of a nice cafe.)

“Rome! They’re nothing but a bunch of fat, olive oil-slurping peasants! Don’t go to Rome!”

Hey, these are fun anecdotes, and I’ll also admit that my understanding ain’t exactly comprehensive. It has helped me at times there. Know who they hate, and join in. LOL

Zardoz
Zardoz
3 years ago
Mama, we’re all crazy now.
Salmo Trutta
Salmo Trutta
3 years ago
Why buy bitcoin during QT? Historically, the markets bounce when R-gDp
rises.
MarkraD
MarkraD
3 years ago
Nevermind getting long JPY or EUR at decade lows, I’ma buy me some pink polka dotted prettycoins, cuz, they’re bright n’ shiny!
Quagmire46
Quagmire46
3 years ago
Reply to  MarkraD
What exchange are they listed on?
MarkraD
MarkraD
3 years ago
Reply to  Quagmire46
You need a forex broker, or there are ETF’s for them.
FromBrussels2
FromBrussels2
3 years ago
‘INVESTORS’ ARE FN DELUDED …. not the first time, history shows ….just a bit more this time around, within the context of a totally unpredictable environment. We are undeniably in unchartered territory, financially, economically, socially, geopolitically, climatalogically, and probably some other ‘ally’ or two, now escaping my filled to the brim, yet impressive, intellectual capacity…..hmm hmm….
KidHorn
KidHorn
3 years ago
Reply to  FromBrussels2
Shut up and give us your money for our LNG.
RonJ
RonJ
3 years ago
Reply to  KidHorn
A great way to drive up the cost of winter heating and electricity, in the U.S.
JeffD
JeffD
3 years ago
“What’s It Mean?”
Naive gullibility is at nosebleed levels?
JeffD
JeffD
3 years ago
Reply to  JeffD
Volume consists of upticks and downticks, and fake volume can be used to draw attention to fake PR campaigns that are blasted with repititious articles, as the whales holding bitcoin realize the whole edifice is about to crumble, and desperately try to find greater fools to buy their junk.
HippyDippy
HippyDippy
3 years ago
Reply to  JeffD
Pump and dump.

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