Will BCH replace BTC? -- B2X Futures Skyrocket! ... is it enough to matter?
Coinbase Adding BCH
Bitcoin Cash has rallied based upon Coinbase adding BCH to its exchange. This is big news. Some people, especially those newer to crypto may be thinking whether BCH could ever be poised to replace bitcoin?
My answer to this question remains the same. Exchanges ultimately decide what is and is not bitcoin. Exchanges are the market places where the price of bitcoin is set, and they decide what is called bitcoin. Not only do they decide what is bitcoin, more importantly, they decide what currencies are the reserve currency for all crypto trading.
What is bitcoin? In some ways, bitcoin is the leading base-pair currency for all other cryptocurrency trading transactions. Certainly bitcoin could be replaced with something like USDT or ETH for a base trading pair. Maybe one day STEEM!?
This is important to understand because even if another coin surpassed bitcoin in price, it is not bitcoin unless the exchanges are willing to make the swap. What gives BTC its value is that cryptos are traded against it. Even if another coin comes along with a higher valuation, if it does not change the functionality of BTC in the marketplace, then in effect, BTC is still BTC.
What do you think?
B2X Futures Soaring
When I passed on the news last night for B2X forking next week (Dec. 28th), I was unsure how big of a deal it was because the price had not yet gone up.
Over the night, B2X futures have gone up a few hundred percent. BTC is now worth $746 more than it was before this announcement. But we see now the higher value of BTC mitigates the appeal of this somewhat since this is only 4% of the value of BTC.
It will be interesting to see if Segwit2X manages to cycle through the news cycles and create more hype.
Would be curious on your thoughts of how big of a deal B2X fork is for the price of BTC?
I think it is a nice move for bitcoin cash and i know they will let btc fall back and they will let it high @crypto-investor
Hey Ted, wanted to bring this to your attention:
https://www.coindesk.com/new-viabtc-exchange-use-bitcoin-cash-base-trading-pair/
Looks like an exchange has made the first move to announced BCH as a base training pair. If this works out well perhaps other exchanges will follow suit. BCH has some strong financial backing and strategic partnerships (eg. SBI Bits, Jihan Wu...) in place that could help 'sweeten' a deal should say a more prominent exchange be reluctant to make the switch.
(Also any expectation of further adoption for BCH as a base pair comes with the assumption that BTC remains routinely sluggish & w/ relatively exorbitant tx fees).
It's big news. Thing is ViaBTC is a biased in all this so it is less significant than a neutral exchange switching. However, that someone at all made the first move is big! Thanks for keeping me in the loop.
Its making me a bit weary here about my bitcoin holdings at the moment. IM curious does this segwit2x have replay protection now?
Their website makes this claim.
Great topic ... we are just 30 min away ... oh my ....
Nice one got your link from your youtube video on the coinbase -
bitcoincash issue.
when it was announced its price was almost crazy over $1K even before the hard fork now time to see how it goes will every exchange support it ?
now which to decide its really hard bitcoin the name is just enough thanks for sharing this blog post :)
I think a large part of the price for BTC comes from the fact is that normally to buy a lot of the alt-coins you need to purchase them in BTC. I think the closest comparison I can think of in my head is how the majority of commodities are priced in USD. I believe that this strengthens the overall value of the US dollar.
what a great spike that is all of a sudden damm
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