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The price of Chia – a eulogy to our XCH

Posted on July 21, 2021July 21, 2021 by Chris Dupres

In the last few weeks the price of Chia has taken a radical nosedive, crashing to around 10% of its all time high recently after launch. This is devastating for anyone holding XCH, including myself, and has made some of my plans around funding some necessary Chia software development out of XCH donations a bit tough to imagine now. So let’s talk about why.

The first, and most obvious, answer is just the price of cryptocurrency in general. All cryptocurrencies have experienced a drastic price decrease in recent weeks, in lockstep with the price of bitcoin. Just a few months ago BTC was at $60 000 USD per coin, and now its dropping below 30. This has hit every coin to roughly the same degree, some much more and few somewhat less. There is a lot of speculation about why this is, with as many theories as there are YouTube channels. I suspect it has to do with the inflationary nature of pumping Tether into the exchanges without pulling enough money out, but until we have proof its all speculation. But with XCH it seems that there is something else going on too.

So why has XCH dropped 90% since the ATH? Well that high price of around $1600 was right at launch of transactions, when hype was high and supply was very low. Since then roughly 10 000 XCH have been entering the supply chain every day through block rewards and total supply is now hundreds of times bigger than it was then (minus the pre-farm). This will of course drive the price down without additional buying pressure to keep it up. Thanks to xchscan.com we can take a look at the data necessary to visualize this.

XCH price over time

First, you can see the price decrease over time. You can see that it is radically faster than the linear growth in supply will show. Because the Chia Network team has not spent any of the pre-farm to date, the supply begins at “0” and grows and treats the 21 million XCH held in the strategic reserve as the zero-point. The opening of that reserve would do what I am describing here but in hyper-speed. as the available supply would explode with no buying pressure. This would be a foolish mistake for the Chia Network team and would devalue their asset, which is why I don’t think there is much risk of that.

XCH daily supply since genesis

So in order to see what is happening we look at the total market capitalization charts, minus the pre-farm, to see how – when you control for the radically increasing supply – the price drop tends to follow a lot closer the overall drop in cryptocurrency prices. To me this provides enough evidence that what we are seeing is a combination of the price stabilizing to the market during an overall market crash with the overall cap dropping by 2/3 instead of 9/10. I don’t think there is anything nefarious going on, and it is unlikely to crash to zero because of this. Its just bad timing for the XCH coin itself. Additionally, with the launch of the on-chain pools and micro-rewards going out the transaction volume has doubled and more and more farmers are getting coin.

XCH market cap from when transactions began

So is it going to get better? Maybe, a little bit. But I don’t think we are going to see any significant price increases until two things happen. First, the overall cryptocurrency market – driven by BTC – has to re-enter a bull market. Until then, with everything basically pegged to some degree to bitcoin, the odds of massive gains are low. Additional to that, though, there needs to be an increase in demand for the coin that exceeds the 10k / day issuance. And that probably won’t happen for quite some time without some significant utility added to the network. So sign up for the hackathon when it re-launches, learn chialisp and get to work!

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4 thoughts on “The price of Chia – a eulogy to our XCH”

  1. Chinese Observer says:
    July 22, 2021 at 1:12 am

    The graphs fit the narrative; But however beautiful they are dead wrong. The price didn’t start on May 21, 2021.

    In early 2021 as chinese IOU CHIA/XCH was traded in China, just like HPOOL was working on a Chia pool.

    The launch of Chia-Net was May 5, 2021 but people were mining chia last year, those are the whales today;

    Hard-Drive in all stores in ASIA were cleared out in April 2021, since then there are none, this is because the call to Cha, via HPOOL and the IOU-process signaled to everyone that “Chia was green, and the next Bitcoin”

    I doubt of any of this was accident, we already know that Bram&Gene were working with HDD manufacturers last year (2020), the HDD people are in Asia; This entire CHIA was an orchestrated world-wide launch.

    Funny now to cry about the price, the Chinese used their money to send the IOU price to $1600 USD, the CHINESE had a working pool some three months before Chia-Net;

    But in the past few months some important data came out;

    1) Chia ain’t green
    2.)China is banning Bitcoin as well as Chia, because the IOU process in China is considered gambling.
    3.)Chia is marketed as USA corporation, but largely a Chinese funded organization; Bram&Gene have said many times their only goal in this is the IPO, to earn $10Billion USD on the stock deal and sell the company out early like Red-Hat to IBM.
    4.) Brand Chia as a USA company was a good sell for the Chinese Investors.

    So the Chinese put their money in, and now pulled it out; Sure all the USA based miners sell most of it as soon as they earn it, but the essential reason that CHIA is going back to zero, is because its all Chinese money, and they have lost hope in this project.

    Western people just assume that CHIA started out at $1600 USD like it was a magic event, and that it was all Western money; On May 21, 2021. The graph says so.

    I suggest all students of crypto study the “CHINESE IOU PROCESS” the Chia wasn’t listed on an exchange until May 21, that is why there is no data. But Chia was traded as a Chinese-CRYPTO-IOU early in the year.

    It’s funny how all the facts are ignored, but why not the graphs clearly show exchange data, but that’s the problem Chia was trading almost six months before it entered the ‘western exchange KYC system’.

    Reply
    1. sonderling says:
      July 25, 2021 at 5:29 am

      another “i’ll tell you what’s really going on”. may contain a few grains of truth, but the rest sounds like all smug conspiracy theories.
      CHIA is still greener compared to PoW. nobody cares about any china ban anymore.

      Reply
  2. Anonymous says:
    July 22, 2021 at 4:03 am

    This is a good one. There is a big gap between China Crypto Market and Western Crypto Market, same gap between China Farmer and Western Farmer in Chia. Now the price of Chia down is pressing the bubbles earlier this year back to real cost in HDD\SSD\PLOT etc. My calculation of the bottom is around 400-500$ and that will be in near future.

    Reply
  3. sillywilly2009 says:
    January 3, 2022 at 9:55 pm

    the crash never ends with Chia. Now below $100

    Reply

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