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This Bitcoin Value Chart Tells You If It’s a Bubble or Not

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler • January 2, 2018

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It's just what investors need: A Bitcoin value chart that can detect when the cryptocurrency is in bubble territory.bitcoin value chart

One the most vexing things about investing in Bitcoin is that unlike stocks, it has no fundamentals you can analyze to determine a fair market price.

And with the price of Bitcoin ranging from less than $1,000 to nearly $20,000 just in 2017, there's never been a greater need for a tool that can ballpark whether the Bitcoin price is too high, too low, or fairly valued.

That's one of the reasons Willy Woo, an independent cryptocurrency investment researcher, created something he calls the NVT ratio (Network Value to Transactions ratio).

Here's how it works...

How the NVT Ratio Determines the Fair Bitcoin Value

Woo was seeking a Bitcoin equivalent to the price/earnings (P/E) ratio used to value stocks.

The issue with cryptocurrencies, of course, is that while they all have a price, they have no earnings. After doing some research, Woo came up with a substitute for earnings.

"Since Bitcoin at its essence is a payments and store of value network, we can look to the money flowing through its network as a proxy to 'company earnings,'" Woo wrote in an article published on Forbes.

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This number is called the daily transaction value, and the Blockchain.info website calculates an estimate every day in U.S. dollars.

To get the NVT Ratio, Woo divides Bitcoin's market cap (the value of all Bitcoin ever created times the current price) by the daily transaction value.

The normal range for the NVT ratio is between 30 and 95, according to Woo. Only when it breaks out above that range do we have a bubble.

Woo's long-term NVT ratio chart, which goes back to Bitcoin's launch, shows the cryptocurrency has had only two real bubbles in its history.

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The first was in 2011-12, when the Bitcoin price plummeted 92%. Bitcoin soared from $1 to nearly $32 in two months, but over the next six months plunged all the way back down to $2. The second bubble took place in 2014-15, when the Bitcoin price declined 83%.

Following the second bubble, the NVT ratio soared far beyond the normal range, eventually hitting 187.

"If the ratio climbs above the normal range, it's a sign that the transactional activity is not sustaining the new valuation, and we can expect a lengthy price correction," Woo said.

The other seven major pullbacks were all episodes of consolidation. In each case, the Bitcoin value stayed within the normal range, kept in check by the rise in daily transaction value.

While these pullbacks were often quite steep - the one in early 2013 was 83% - they were short-lived compared to the two bubbles.

All of which brings us to several key questions: Where is the NVT ratio now? And was the most recent run-up in the Bitcoin price (from $8,000 to nearly $20,000 in less than a month) a bubble or not?

Let's see what the numbers tell us...

Is the Bitcoin Price in Bubble Territory Now?

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David Zeiler, Associate Editor for Money Morning at Money Map Press, has been a journalist for more than 35 years, including 18 spent at The Baltimore Sun. He has worked as a writer, editor, and page designer at different times in his career. He's interviewed a number of well-known personalities - ranging from punk rock icon Joey Ramone to Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Over the course of his journalistic career, Dave has covered many diverse subjects. Since arriving at Money Morning in 2011, he has focused primarily on technology. He's an expert on both Apple and cryptocurrencies. He started writing about Apple for The Sun in the mid-1990s, and had an Apple blog on The Sun's web site from 2007-2009. Dave's been writing about Bitcoin since 2011 - long before most people had even heard of it. He even mined it for a short time.

Dave has a BA in English and Mass Communications from Loyola University Maryland.

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bryan roades
bryan roades
5 years ago

Thank you

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Nigel Schofield
Nigel Schofield
5 years ago

Interesting points on NVT

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Tracy Edson
Tracy Edson
5 years ago

Interesting

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Özkan Eren
Özkan Eren
5 years ago

All these charts are great, can we get an old report so that we can verify it as well?

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dzeiler_admin
dzeiler_admin
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Reply to  Özkan Eren

Hi Özkan,

Thanks for reading Money Morning. The chart featured in this story is based on the complete price history of Bitcoin. I'm not sure what you're looking for, but if you can be more specific I will track it down and post it here.

Dave Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning

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