(Bloomberg) -- To investors hunting for the next Dogecoin, the more than 19,000% price gain that cryptocurrency SafeMoon posted in its early weeks was like catnip. Though the price of the four-month-old token has dropped since then, more than 2.4 million investors have bought it, according to its developers.
Bitcoin is widely regarded as the first modern cryptocurrency — the first publicly used means of exchange to combine decentralized control, user anonymity, record-keeping via a blockchain, and built-in scarcity.

The strengthening of coherence in bubble regimes is much less prominent in the short and long term. In the short term, the effect of bubbles may be hidden by the effects of daily news items and intraday trading activity. It is also seen that in the short term the relationship between online factors and cryptocurrency prices are erratic and generally weak; there is little consistency as to whether the price or factors are leading, though slightly more negative relationships exist in this period band. The erratic relationships over the short term suggest online factors may not be best predictor in the shorter term.
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