Not exact matches
The current craze for bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies in general, have been likened by some to the 17th
century Dutch
tulip mania and more recently the dotcom
bubble.
The
tulip craze in 17th -
century Amsterdam pitted insanely competitive flower breeders against one another, drove a market
bubble and gave still - life painters a new theme.
«Former minister and author Rhyu stated that cryptocurrencies are the 21st
century's
tulip bubble.
Someone is going to get killed,» Dimon said, referring to the economic
bubble that formed around
tulip bulbs in the 17th
century.
Lubin argued the cryptocurrency
bubble is fundamentally different from the American housing market crash of 2008 and Dutch
tulip mania in the 17th
century, to which the bitcoin gold rush has been compared.
The People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party and the biggest newspaper group in China, recently published a piece calling bitcoin a
bubble, and comparing the cryptocurrency to the 17th -
century Dutch
tulip bulb
bubble., just like JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon did.
Additionally, while the comparisons with other
bubbles (the
tulip bubble of Dutch fame, or the land
bubble in the mid 19th
century) the underlying Blockchain technology provides a basis for value in the Bitcoin ecosystem that is maintained by the consensus of the majority.
She clarified that albeit the market is in a
bubble, it shouldn't be banned, just like the Netherlands didn't ban
tulips in the 17th
century, or like the government didn't ban tech stocks in the early 2000s.