Tulip Mania
Dear investors,
I have warned multiple times that we are in a highly speculative bubble of mania and greed. Valuations are sky high, there are a significant amount of non-professional retail investors in the market, and with the boundless amount of monetary stimulus, money is flying like toilet paper off the shelves.
While scrolling through Twitter last night I came across something that absolutely floored me. An NFT project was released last night that pokes fun of the Dutch Tulip Mania that happened in 1637. And the crazy thing about this is that speculative gamblers are eating this thing up.
What makes this significantly ironic is the history that surrounds tulip bulbs. Back in 1637 during the Dutch Golden Age, contract prices for tulips reached unfathomable highs based on speculative mania or the “Greater Fool Theory”.
During 1637-1637 tulip bulb contracts began changing hands over ten times per day, with some estimated to have reached $750,000 per bulb (adjusted for inflation in today’s price).
So when I was scrolling through twitter last night and saw that there was an NFT project specifically created to sell tulip bulb jpegs, I was hooked. At first I thought no one would bite, but then they started to sell.
In less than 3 hours all 50 of the tulip jpegs sold for an estimated price of over a quarter million. One even sold for 18 ETH, which at the time was around $50,000 USD.
What this insane mania revolving pictures on the internet (that will never generate any future free cash flow) means is that we are nowhere near the bottom. In fact I would venture to say we are near the 9th inning of a long and drawn out baseball game that is soon to end.
Sure, the people who sold those pictures of tulips for $50,000 are probably celebrating. And I’m sure someone else could potentially jump in and bid twice the amount (as seen by the rocks selling for millions). But when the music stops (and it will) you don’t want to be caught holding the bag on an asset that will never cash flow — period!
Be careful out there boys. These are dangerous times we are treading in.
Other Stuff
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