Too Long; Didn't Read
When the cryptocurrency market first began to garner widespread attention in 2017, everyone from market insiders to the general public seemed to believe that prices could go nowhere but up. By 2018, everyone had changed their tune because of the massive crash that wiped out more than <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/20/after-the-bitcoin-boom-hard-lessons-for-cryptocurrency-investors.html">$600 billion in asset value</a> almost overnight. Since then, however, the cryptocurrency market has revealed its’ true nature — speculative, untamed, and <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/geraldfenech/2019/01/09/volatility-in-the-crypto-market-expected-to-continue-in-2019-although-this-will-be-less-pronounced/#26dcabb32893">unbelievably volatile</a>.