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Sorry, I’m a bit confused by the “fundraising” terminology. Is this in regards to investments in the cryptocurrency industry, such as exchanges and other corporations, or individual purchases of the raw assets?
Looking at market cap, Bitcoin peaked earlier this year at $1.43 trillion and is currently at $1.23 trillion. That’s only a 14% drop. If you look at the global cryptocurrency market cap, it peaked in 2021 at $3.07 trillion and is currently at $2.26 trillion. That’s a 26% drop. I understand that you don’t think crypto is dead, but there’s a lot of delusion in this thread. Surely, if cryptocurrencies are dead, Disney (down 53% from peak) and Intel (down 67% from peak) are on life support.
Good point, the health of the speculative market (“people buying and selling btc and other cryptos”) is a different thing from the health of the industry (“people starting crypto projects and raising VC money to fund them”).
By fundraising, i meant the second one. I find it to be a better indicator because it sends the message that people are building projects with promises of value convincing enough that VCs invest in them. I personally think those promises are bullshit but if VCs are pouring 10 billion bucks a year in an industry you cannot credibly call it dead or dying.
To the more general point of the meme… some people only consume headlines. Their pattern is easily recognizable :
It’s the same energy as QAnon when they were convinced that Trump would parachute from a helicopter at Biden’s investiture to commandeer the US army and publicly execute Hilary Clinton. They really do believe the “AI hype” is about to simmer down and then they’ll have been right all along lmao