Today is the 12th weekly update of the [Diversification Protocol](https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@michiel/diversification-protocol-no-stress-in-a-bear-market-always-funds-for-living-money-on-the-sidelines-to-buy-cheap-update-every). This protocol is designed to allocate a weekly income or funds to be invested mostly to BTC when it is undervalued and mostly to [gold](https://www.bullionstar.com/?r=438) and optional stable coins when BTC is overvalued. It also tells you to spend gold for living when BTC is undervalued and BTC for living when it is overvalued. This will create higher returns on your investment through a full cycle and reduce stress in a bear market. [HERE](https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@michiel/diversification-protocol-no-stress-in-a-bear-market-always-funds-for-living-money-on-the-sidelines-to-buy-cheap-update-every) you can read the protocol in dept.

The valuation is done by using the Mayer Multiple and compare it to historical values. The Mayer Multiple is the current BTC price divided by the 200 day moving average. We use data from mayermultiple.com. When you want to be updated on the multiple several times a day you can follow [THIS](https://twitter.com/tipmayermultple) twitter account.

Because I just started the protocol, I didn't accumulate gold and stable coins yet. In this update I will exactly follow the protocol, but since I only start saving gold and stable coins from a multiple of 1.6, I will only be able to execute it 100% according the rules after that point is broken. Funds invested in BTC today will eventually at least partly be converted to gold, since the BTC accumulates in the same wallet and a percentage of the total BTC in this wallet will be allocated to gold at higher valuations.

## The current multiple

![multiple24.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmahshq7WUJo1RCBLzx4Xx5X4CmG4u8Rk3egBc9b42dnS8/multiple24.png)

## Weekly allocations of funds

![allocation24.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSDxd6WcETqYngvRvFbBtAAusnM9ZFFkanRJN8MaW4hEV/allocation24.png)

*The protocol will be slightly boring till we get to a multiple of 1.6, till then we allocate 100% in BTC because it is undervalued. With the current 200 day moving average we need a BTC price of over 16,362 USD to start allocating to gold and Stable coins. This can take days or months, but it is good to be prepared already.*

## Important news of the week

### Price manipulation through Tether
The Bitcoin price has been manipulated by buying big amounts of Bitcoin on critical moments with Tether according to researchers and this news didn’t do any good for the Bitcoin price this week, all the main stream media was mentioning it. The Bitcoin price rose 50% more through this manipulation in the previous bull market and the price of alt coins even 64% according to the paper. 

I am a bit sceptical about this research, because the investigation was only done on the blockchain by tracking addresses of Bitfinex, it doesn’t say anything about the backing of Tether by real dollars. Since Tether is a stable coin to store your value when you think the crypto market is overvalued it makes a lot of sense that they are spend after a big drop. Isn’t this the entire purpose of Tether? When the Tethers are really backed it is just how the market works right?

>BTW, even if Tether is not backed, where are US dollars backed with?

Furthermore, since we already had a drop of 50+% and there are not really more Tethers printed since the start of this year the air should be out already. After a huge drop we made already 3 bottoms at 6k without the help of Tether so it is fair to suspect that the overvaluation caused by manipulation is already gone. 

![Tether price.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmfFfGgU9UWer4wmdJ8vSrSb7DeD6Py13RgmdZshV9zT8g/Tether%20price.png)
*Not many extra Tethers are created since the beginning of this year*

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/13/much-of-bitcoins-2017-boom-was-market-manipulation-researcher-says.html

### Lightning Network keeps growing
Lightning Network keeps growing but more importantly, Dapps that go further than just a payment method are being created. Slowly but surely the amazing possibilities of micro transactions are becoming visible, it could implemented through all the apps over the entire internet!

https://ambcrypto.com/new-features-bitcon-btc-zap-lightning-network-wallet/

https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/06/Bitcoin-Lightning-Oracles

https://poketoshi.com

https://satoshis.place

https://youtu.be/ASkyu0w_8Q8

### Bitcoin Google searches rising
From the 9th of June Google searches for the keyword Bitcoin are on the rise. Price and Google searches are correlated but it is hard to say what the leading indicator is. I did some investigation by comparing the recent tops and bottoms and it turns out that both of them sometimes start the trend first. This rise in searches won’t promise anything but it could be an indicator that interest is coming back and a new uptrend will follow.

![bitcoin searches.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYinimTW9cLsbydY3m7bfJCFyCH42ioAq7XRMJEasCS2Z/bitcoin%20searches.png)

### Three times more transactions on Dogecoin than on Bitcoin Cash
Over the last week there were more than 3 times more transactions on Dogecoin than on Bitcoin Cash and it is not a single spike, it looks more like a trend. This is remarkable because the market cap of BCH is 45 times higher than the market cap of DOGE. The amount of transactions on peer to peer payment network is one of the most important factors for the valuation, and BCH turns out to be almost 150 times more valuable per transaction than DOGE. Where is all this value coming from?

>When you believe the BCH isn’t overvalued, Doge is a HUGE buy LOL

![bitcoincash transactions.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmcemS4sRQyWBaqQ8yXYAeyTnrhL2A2GKHAFcfp46rxJK4/bitcoincash%20transactions.png)

### EOS stuck
EOS going main net is not going smoothly, first voting didn’t work out well and later the network was frozen. Voting required the private key to be online and multiple bugs were removed at the last moment. For a heavily funded project it doesn’t go really smooth.

### Bitcoin chart VS Wallstreet market cycle cheat sheet
The Bitcoin chart of the last year looks amazingly like a typical market cycle complete with a bull trap and a triple bottom. This could indicate that the low for this cycle is set, but historical results are no guarantee for the future. Time will tell.

![Market cycle.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmWq7UJkjGUNJ9wM6cYkQP8zKwhAWncvgSAEBBA1efbesE/Market%20cycle.png)

### The Bitcoin price is down again this week
The Bitcoin price went down 9.5% this week from 7259 to 6564 dollar. We are now hoovering around the 6500 for a while near the 3rd bottom after the crash. The biggest influencer of the price was the manipulation news this week and technically the moment of truth is coming closer. When we break to the downside a crypto winter can be expected, but when we break to the upside it could signal the end of the bear market. Since the volume is extremely low, whales can play the market relatively easy now, so technical analyse could terribly fail when a whale decides he want it different.  

![price24.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmamwruYoV4DjLmVTUyRTj1fLvvbS2bdujeVWfhhkYa9Q1/price24.png)

## Fundamentals and valuation
In the history of Bitcoin the multiple was lower than today only 5.65% of the time. Since the multiple today is 0.64 while the moderate is 1.56, there is 59% discount on BTC according to this valuation method!

Long term the prospects are still extremely bullish. Lightning Network and Segwit adoption are growing and improving faster than expected and can boost adoption for day to day payments, micro transactions and even Dapps. Wall Street, governments and central banks are on the sidelines to come in and could inject huge amounts of money. Short term sentiment is neutral to bearish, but for the long term almost everything is bullish. 

*Disclaimer*
This is no financial advice, just my view on the market.

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