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Read Also, I bought $250 in
bitcoin. Here's what I learned
Some
people kill time at the airport by browsing duty-free shops. I decided to shop
for bitcoin.
But
first, there are two things you should know about me: I tend to be almost as
afraid of losing money investing as I am of flying. On some level, I figured
one fear might cancel out the other.
So
last Thursday, while waiting for a flight to Nashville, I pulled up a popular
application called Coinbase that can be used to buy and sell bitcoin. The
virtual currency had hit $10,000 for the first time a couple days earlier,
before retreating somewhat. News of bitcoin's rapid rise was everywhere,
including on CNN.
Related: What is bitcoin?
For
15 minutes at the airport, I refreshed the price of bitcoin over and over,
watching as it gained and lost hundreds of dollars in a matter of minutes. I
called out the price fluctuations breathlessly to my wife, who gently
encouraged me not to be an idiot, before returning to her magazine.
She
was in good company. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon recently called bitcoin a
"fraud" and suggested people who buy it are "stupid."
Warren Buffett called bitcoin a "mirage" in 2014 and warned investors
to "stay away."
Related:
What's driving the bitcoin frenzy?
And
yet bitcoin has climbed more than tenfold since Buffett's warning. Earlier this
month, one college friend casually told me over drinks he'd made tens of
thousands of dollars investing in another cryptocurrency. He said he hoped it
would be worth enough one day to buy a house.
When
I saw the price of bitcoin fall to $9,500, I pressed buy, defying the wisdom of
two finance titans and my wife. One hundred dollars, or 0.0101 bitcoins. (A few
days later, I bought another $150.) By the time we got to our hotel, my stake
had already gone up 10%. One week later, it was (briefly) up 100%. My wife's
opinion of me has reportedly decreased by the same amount.
What
is happening?
It's an investing frenzy,
plain and simple.
Bitcoin
cracked $1,000 on the first day of 2017. By this week, it was up to $12,000,
and then it really took off: The price topped $17,000 on some exchanges Thursday,
and $18,000 on at least one. Other cryptocurrencies have seen similar spikes,
though they trade for much less than bitcoin.
There's
a long list of factors people may point to in an attempt to explain this.
Regulators have taken a hands-off approach to bitcoin in certain markets.
Dozens of new hedge funds have launched this year to trade cryptocurrencies
like bitcoin. The Nasdaq and Chicago Mercantile Exchange plan to let investors
trade bitcoin futures, which may attract more professional investors.
