Why has the digital currency sector been falling recently
(1) the long-term investment of digital currency is a kind of high-risk investment
digital currency investment is faced with policy uncertainty, technology risk, competition risk and other risks. For example, the policy changes of digital currency supervision in various countries, the possible cracking of consensus mechanism, and the risk of competition and substitution of other decentralization and legal digital currency. These risks determine that digital currency investment is still a high-risk investment in the long run
(2) there are many uncertain factors affecting the short-term investment of digital currency
in the short term, the price of digital currency is affected by more technical, news and fundamental factors that affect short-term supply and demand, and the price fluctuates greatly, with strong uncertainty and unpredictability.
according to foreign media reports, on Monday, the price of bitcoin fell to $2526.4, with a maximum decline of 14.5%, which created the biggest decline since January 2015. A few days ago, the price of bitcoin just broke the $3000 mark, a new record, but then plummeted by more than 30%. As of the 16th of this week, the market value of bitcoin has evaporated $10 billion, almost equal to the market value of social software Twitter's $12 billion
the other reasons for the sharp decline include the sharp decline of US technology stocks and the poor outlook of investment banks on the special currency. Morgan Stanley said that "the virtual currency is like the currency of the wild west", which needs to be regulated before it can continue to rise. The previous price surge may be caused by speculation and not easy to sell
it is worth mentioning that bitcoin is not the only one that has plummeted. It is said that the prices of other digital currencies have also fallen considerably
there are risks in investment, so you need to be careful when entering
of course, this general definition of Finance may be too abstract, and these examples seem too simple. In fact, on the basis of these general definitions and specific financial procts, human society has deced and developed various large-scale financial markets, including various derivative financial markets based on general financial securities, which serve no more than the simple financial transactions mentioned above. The scope of financial transactions has expanded from the original blood relationship system to villages and towns, to regions, to the whole province, to the whole country, and then to the whole world< There are five elements of Finance:
1. Financial object: money (capital). The currency circulation regulated by the monetary system has the characteristics of advance, turnover and increment
2. Financial mode: represented by credit mode with loan as the main mode. The objects of transaction in the financial market are generally the written proof of credit relationship, the contractual documents of creditor's rights and debts, etc
including direct financing: no intermediary intervention; Indirect financing: finance realized through the intermediary role of intermediary institutions
3. Financial institutions are usually divided into bank and non bank financial institutions< 4. Financial place: financial market, including capital market, money market, foreign exchange market, insurance market, derivative financial instrument market, etc
5. System and regulation mechanism: Supervision and regulation of financial activities.