Speaking of crunch time, a diff chart subtracting the current daily price from a year ago would be interesting. If we don't take off pretty soon, it will begin to approach zero pretty rapidly here. We're about a month and a half away from going negative after 365 days.
I decided to just put the chart together myself. I got the data from the following page:
https://www.quandl.com/BAVERAGE/USD-USD-BITCOIN-Weighted-Price I filled in occasional missing dates with the previous day's price.
Dates along the horizontal axis represent hypothetical past sell dates following a hold of exactly a year. The vertical axis shows the percentage gain or loss that you would have experienced had you decided to sell your bitcoins that you'd purchased exactly a year prior.
For context: For much of of May-August 2012, you would have taken a loss on year-old bitcoins. This is contrary to the idea going around that if one had simply bought and held for at least a year, he would have always profited. I will be watching to see if we continue to approach 0%, and hoping that we don't.
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