Paradigm lost on the bitcoin rollercoaster

Paradigm lost on the bitcoin rollercoaster
David Chaplin
You can say what you like about bitcoin, and everybody does.That’s the point, according to Noelle Acheson, research director at recently listed crypto-trading platform, Coinbase.Writing in the wake of the most recent bitcoin ‘halving’ (in value), Acheson says “one thing the past year has taught us is that traditional valuation methods no longer have much influence”. “A new investment paradigm is taking over, one based on sentiment and narrative,” she says.But new investment paradigms have been arou...

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