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Deutsche Bank sees the possibility of a Bitcoin crash in 2018, but we have reasons to support why this fear is overexaggerated.
Deutsche Bank has released a list of 30 possible events that pose a high risk to investors across the world in the coming year. A few of these include high inflation in the U.S., the Russian presidential elections, and the bursting of housing bubbles in Canada, Sweden, and China.

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They treat it as a risk - they don't guarantee that it's going to happen.  I'd definitely agree that it's very likely.

The article makes a lot of very generalised statements about what gives BTC a value, but not why it gives BTC the specific value that people are paying for it right now. 

People "are buying anything from food to smartphones to expensive cars" with Bitcoin, but to what extent?  Not to the extent at which the majority of people buying into BTC recently are doing so in order to buy those goods with it.  So there could certainly be a crash.

The article also points out that in the dotcom bubble, some companies ended up being successful later, but it's important to note that many investors are not here to wait for several years for a recovery.  Some dotcom companies never recovered at all.

Yeah, everyone investing in crypto should acknowledge that there's a significant risk involved and that the price could crash at any time. The heads up is nice because certain specific events could cause dips. Traders should keep an eye out.

A crash though? I dunno, I feel like it's unlikely. None of these seem to have the same magnitude as a sudden China exchange ban and the 'crash' that caused lasted what, a week? I know there's a risk but I'm simply not worried.

Everyone knows that investing in crypto involves risk. That's not a new matter. Actually this banks are afraid of cryptocurrencies. That's the main reason why they issue such statements whenever crypto's price breaks records. They want to create a panic situation among the crypto users. That's the only reason why they periodically issues such statements.

All investments carry....as far as Crypto is concerned, yeah much all other investments it does carry risk. However, even though crypto's are volatile when one considers annual averages...it becomes very obvious that year on year even with the dips over a annual period crypto still produces insane ROI.

Personally, I think the USD and some other fiat currencies have a bigger chance of crashing than crypto.

that's Rubbish

Exactly, everyone who believes on everything that banks are saying and spreading about bitcoin deserves to be sumerged in poverty forever.


Who can trust a bank? it is obvious that they want to kill bitcoin, or at least, try to make people be afraid of it to decrease the demand.

And we have always seen some shady movements from banks and governments, everytime that the FBI seized any exchange, they kept the money.
just imagine how much money they have earned because of that, uncountable.

As many have said, investing our money into the world of crypto has a great risk. In fact almost all the exchangers say everyone who loses coins, is not the responsibility of the exchanger. And this is something that must be fixed.

Its just a fear based on an ideology that bitcoin crash might affect investors largely. It does not gives any evidence as to the fact that bitcoin will crash soon in 2018. I think 2018 is too soon to say that bitcoin can crash. Its not known to a great part of world.

So you are saying that the bitcoin crash depends on how much known in the world it is ? Bitcoin could crash anytime no one knows if it's sooner or later.
But most likely if it's going to happen it's now . The price has gone extremly high and it's possible that it goes down at the same rate.

If without risk, do they really stop making a bitcoin or cryptocurrency negative articles. No I don’t think so, due to its popularity banking system is affected and they’re businesses is in the edge of crashing. They just want to warn not to really help they’re clients but to discourage them not to invest in bitcoin. That is the obvious.

We have also reasons to believed why we shouldn't fear on it especially as of now that we see clearly the support. Yes anything can happened including a crash but we need to stick to the reality that it's more likely not going to happened especially at 2018. Speculations will remained speculations no matter how backed it up technically.

Defined "crash" , meaning totally wreck? To the point that people will dump all of their hold coins? Price crash is possible anytime and people who are involved in bitcoin are already used to it. If still that some people worries about that then try to make a plan on how will they deal on it once the "crash" happened. Goodluck on making an analyzations.

Banks will say anything so that the price will drop some. They want to purchase coins on the low. Don't listen to them.

Bitcoin is now on the way to get known by more and more people. This means a higher demand, which can help to sustain the price of bitcoin for a while. This could be enough to finish the development of the LN and the Atomic Swap. If they go live, that could solve some major problems of bitcoin, like fees, transaction times etc... which also can help the price not to crash.
Also, if governments start to regulate bitcoin in order to get tax out of it, can make some negative effect on the price on the short run, but on the long term it could help bitcoin to be an accepted digital payment method.

The keyword is possibility.
They do make those scenarios and they would be stupid not to do them and get caught by surprise.

More important then the possibility is the chances they give it to become reality.
There is nothing critical about bitcoin in this and I don't know why people jump saying it's FUD from the banks.

https://news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/deutsche-bank-bitcoin.jpg

Bitcoin is just 13.
Take a look at number 2,9,11, and 12.
Are they FUD-ing themselves or what?

A lot of you should stop seeing conspiracies behind every lamppost.

Oh boy, Big Banks are desperate. But, honestly, what can we expect from bankers? Bitcoin is already going mainstream, and they're looking at it as possible threat in the future so they've decided to start the FUD campaign.
And what's this stuff about "high risk", isn't it obvious that any investor would know that there are risks when investing in cryptocurrencies? what's new about this? or do they think the investors around the world invest in Bitcoin blindly without doing some kind of research about BTC?
Just another FUD article filled with nonsense.

Banks don't like bitcoin because they can't control it, and money investors put in bitcoin is money banks don't have. Bitcoin is a threat for banks, so they won't say bitcoin will boom, but the contrary.

Not much is needed to see such a crash.
Just major exchange fraud e.g. BitFinex steal all the BTCs. Plus information that Theter is just currency which was created w/o any limits and it has no cover in any real US - basically its just scam. Then you will see waterfall like in 2014.
Indicators show that we are high now and correction move is very much needed. Obviously price will not drop suddenly to <1000$ levels even after very serious bad news.

Bitcoin and crypto is literally all over the place right now. Every single person in every country in the world that has basic internet and tv access has probably heard about it. This means more and more people are starting to get involved in crypto and are potentially buying already once they hear how much much they can make in a short span of time.

This means that gradually people can start withdrawing their money from their banks and put it in crypto. This is exactly what the whole banking system is trying to avoid at all costs and they've been doing it since day 1. Decrease in their liquidity is no joke as it would totally ruin their whole businesses/projects or whatever they're part of.

So basically what they try to do now is to scare the public who still have little or no info about how crypto works. They are trying so hard. They first talked about the "danger" of crypto and said that it's used for shady stuff. When that theory failed, they switched to saying that they can't recover your funds if you get stolen/tricked and now playing on the main thing that's driving a lot of newcomers.

A lot of people are joining in and buying just because of the profitability. So it makes sense that this is what they're attacking now. "HEY don't withdraw your money. BTC will crash" LOL. I seriously can't stop smiling thinking of the awkwardness of their strategies. But any newcomers should understand what crypto is and how prices work or they'll all be disappointed once the price goes down a little bit. Or I can picture it as a means of pushing the people to sell of their coins because a few whales wanna join in.

Well it's just like sayings from past years that "BITCOIN IS A BUBBLE" all over those many big names in the industry and this time banks? Well, in fact bitcoin investment is a risky thing due to the fact that it is volatile and it would go down easily as other big names say but let's face it bitcoin survived on those negative thoughts.

Banks would literally say that or might endorse how bitcoin would crash so that they may in control, banks hate bitcoin and how do they react that they will not be turned down by people. Exactly, putting negatively onto their opponents and one of these is bitcoin that blooming up on it's price and might turn down big bank in the near future.

Each and every user know the risk associated with bitcoin, that it can end in a crash for several reasons. By the same time majority believe that bitcoin won't let us down, because it has faced several such scenarios that have been exaggerated and overcome with the potential it has got taking it move forward towards growth.

I cannot trust bank why would I, I am respecting their perspective and opinion, they will say that of course bitcoin has been their number one rival nowadays especially crypto market who has high demands nowadays. Some says that banks are manipulating the value of bitcoin, what they did was they bought bitcoin and  just hold it so others cannot afford to buy it.

They are right to think so and warn their customers and you guys shouldn't worry and take their opinion like every other in the speculation subforum. Every single day people use services like tradingview to share their opinions and many of them are saying "short, it's going to crash" and you just walk past them without saying "these guys are trying to kill crypto". Take a break nobody is fighting anything here. If an asset goes up by 100% in a week it's bound to be seen as prone to corrections by experienced traders.

Yes,price has gone very higher.It would be better if its price falls down a little and get stabilizes at some price.Otherwise,even a small spark could make new investors to do panic selling which may result in a price dip.

But we could only expect a small price dip and we should be aware that banks treat bitcoin as their rival and give false predictions about it that it would soon crash.

That’s the truth, bankers don’t want bitcoin because it replaces them in the pedestal that they profited from us for a long time but on the other hand we don’t have enough to benefits from them. They don’t want us to decide what is good for us, they don’t want us to be free from them, they don’t want us to uncontrolled. But we’re in cryptocurrency so we’re free.

Whatever cames from a bank about cryptos.. just ignore it. Do you really think that there will be a crash by next year?

Even if there is a crash, cryptos will be here forever, only that if bitcoin dies, another altcoin will take the sit.


And more if they are words coming from the Deutsche bank, they are well-knowed as liars, they are always lying about the PBI of theier population, they are not even serious with that.

Dont believe this crap, it is not real.

When we could hear good news from banks about Bitcoin, it seem impossible, most of the bank usually those big player in the market are trying to destroy Bitcoin.

Bitcoin free of the control of big governments and big banks. Was the big reason why Banks are trying hard to impose those damaging action against Bitcoin.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/09/14/why-big-banks-attacked-bitcoin/#660521236c53 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/09/14/why-big-banks-attacked-bitcoin/#660521236c53)

"Inflation in the US" doesn't seem like something that really matters when you consider that 2018 will probably be like any normal year and there won't be anything special unless something extraneous happens, which could be something like war with North Korea I guess, however unlikely.

I didn't realize that Sweden had a housing bubble, but I'm very aware of the Canadian housing market being in a bubble and the sheer over-expenditure on homes which aren't of the value they're being sold for most of the time. That's what happens when you allow for foreign money to proliferate and price out your native population.

Why would banks make any good predictions about bitcoins since they see it as a risk that must removed by all means, that's why they have been calling it a bubble all year round even though they have nothing to back their claim. No one should listen to the.

see this is the things that these instituion very good at doing they are stating the obvious thing , even if bitcoin crash so what ? in 2014 did bitcoin not crash ? and today price is at 19 thousands per coin . these people enjoy to treat normal ppls like they are braid dead idiots and they take advtange because this is how they are looking at most humans . this is sad , obvious thing they say no even need genious to say it that what goes up must come down and when it happen they will come to cnbc and pretend to be genious , they will say that they warn everyone and ppls no listen :D

you have to pay more attention to it these ppls always fight for both teams so always they can pin point one quote thing that they say and use it to make selfs seem like guru https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-12/deutsche-bank-economist-hooper-says-bitcoin-isn-t-going-anywhere at same time they are givng doubt on bitcoin they are say to world that bitcoin will never fail  :D :D

The possible threats were always the same and will always be. There is a possibility of btc crash and it will happen as there is a uncontrolled rise but when it will happen is a question?

people have to be careful on their investments. i don't think that nothing is safer anymore in this chaotic world era. however we have to move on and being smart, we can evaluate our risks. if bitcoin crashes next year, new socalled buble can arise. no current dominant system can stop the change after all.

I don't think a big crash in 2018 is doubtful at all. This is the first year everyone in the world is giving Bitcoin to their friends and family as a gift/present for Christmas. Think about how many billions of dollars will be sold after this by noobs who don't realize that they should hold the BTC and they will just buy stuff with it and the price will crash.

I guess the price could drop potentionally, but a huge crash? Not really something I think is plausible. A big bank issuing warnings like these though might not be the best thing PR-wise, they are looking for any possible ways to influence and spread bad notoriety, there's a chunk of truth that it might experience a bit of a fall, but I don't buy the bubble theory.

I can definitely see a big crash coming soon , we have seen from 1000 dollar to 150 already , a crash like this will happen i think.
I just wouldn't listen to advice banks have on cryptocurrency's in general.

I think that price correction can happen, but I don't really think that BTC will crash on more that 15% of it's price.

Statements are very general. Nevertheless, ordinary people will not want involvement to bitcoin and will still stick to the old fashion ways of banking. Thats a different story from todau mate. We have seen a lot of potential growth this year and a possible growth for the coming year since bitcoin is becoming more popular.

We have already seen the obituary of bitcoin all over the internet a hundred times before.Now,most of them predict about the bitcoin crash.This is the first time bitcoin gets media exposure all over the world and intitutional firms entering for the first time in bitcoin history.So,we could expect a big hike in bitcoin price and possibilities for crash are very low.

many such prediction were made in past also. But at last all went in vain. it may only be possible if Govt. all around the world declare holding or using BTC illegal then definitely this scenario may occur otherwise no chance.

Not only the central banks, the government also warn us to not put our money in BTC, because according to them, there are no regulation or institution that provide customer protection, central bank already in panic mode to stop people from investing in Bitcoin, they keep compare this event with tulip mania