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În ceea ce pare a fi o inversare gravă a rolului, Bitcoin devine acum bani mai puțin volatili decât moneda națională a Marii Britanii.  

• În conformitate cu de date provided by Bloomberg, the 30-day volatility of the British pound against the U.S. dollar has soared over the past month. 
• Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s volatility has declined substantially since June, and again since the start of October. This has brought each currency’s volatility to a roughly equal point.
  
  

  

• Bitcoin went down as one of the best-performing assets in the previous quarter – simply by ședere relatively flat while stocks and commodities continued to fall. 
• The pound experienced turbulent volatility at the end of September, almost declining to parity with the U.S. dollar. At the same time, trading volume for the BTC / GBP trading pair a crescut – an emerging trend among collapsing currencies. 
• Global bond markets are also showing heightened volatility against Bitcoin, despite the former’s reputation for safety and dependability, and the latter’s reputation as a risk asset. 
• In Britain’s case, the Bank of England has now întors to temporary quantitative easing to curb instability in its bond market, which nearly caused a “Lehman moment” in September. 
• Many central banks – including former Fed chair Ben Bernanke – have previously denied that Bitcoin could constitute a form of money, largely due to being too volatile. 
• Sweden’s central bank presented a argument similar in May: “The price of Bitcoin has had a high degree of volatility and is thus a relatively poor preserver,” it explained over Twitter.