Bitcoin Sets Another Record as Bullish Bets Continue (nytimes.com) 206
Cryptocurrency backers continue to bid up Bitcoin prices, pushing the digital token to a new high of about $84,000 on Monday. The New York Times: The cryptocurrency has surged since Election Day, on investor hopes that President-elect Donald J. Trump and his appointees would be friendlier to the industry after the Biden administration's aggressive enforcement of securities law that targeted several crypto companies.
Cryptocurrencies have become a major component of the so-called Trump trade. Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, which got the regulatory green light to trade this year, have been booming over the past week. Crypto-related companies have also jumped in value: Riot Platforms, a Bitcoin miner, is up 68 percent since Election Day and Coinbase, a crypto exchange, is up 69 percent over the same period.
Cryptocurrencies have become a major component of the so-called Trump trade. Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, which got the regulatory green light to trade this year, have been booming over the past week. Crypto-related companies have also jumped in value: Riot Platforms, a Bitcoin miner, is up 68 percent since Election Day and Coinbase, a crypto exchange, is up 69 percent over the same period.
Bullish bets (Score:5, Funny)
Funny, I read "bullshit" at first glance.
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Funny, I read "bullshit" at first glance.
Well, bullshit is what Bitcon is backed with, so it's a natural reaction.
Heard a guy talking about Bitcoin in a bar: (Score:2, Funny)
He said: "Fiat currencies are obsolete. They're total crap."
His friend: "Really? Like what currencies?"
Guy: "Anything - the Euro, the Yen, even the USD - all crap."
Friend: "Uh Ok; so like, what's Bitcoin's worth then?"
Guy: "Each coin is worth north of $84K right now."
Friend: "What?! $84K?? As in USD??"
Guy: "Yeah - over $84K USD each"
Friend: "Wow. Bitcoin sure is a lot of crap!"
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I always thought that FIAT was a small Italian car. Haven't seen any in this country though.
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In a country with a "relative" stable currency, the urgency to use something different for transactions isnt immediate.
Over time, it might change.
In the mean time, it is in price discovery phase, on an S curve adoption as a store of value.
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Did you say anything in that post above?
Gold has been in price discovery for 5000 years.
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Bitcoin is valuable because it can store productive energy through time and space with minimal transaction and maintenance costs.
Permissionless, uncensorable and unhackable.
Most of golds price is monetary premium.
All of Bitcoins price is a monetary premium.
Gold if it no longer serves as a reserve asset would crash hard, at least 70% if not more. As the only value left would be the shiny and technological use. (Aint happening soon.)
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You make ridiculous comments because you arent open nor paying attention.
When you work using your time and energy or some of your capital (using machines and fuel/electricity, etc...) that productive time and energy is repaid with money.
Money is simply a ledger of fucks given. Someone else gave a fuck about the time, service, product you made.
That ledger currently being FIAT money, looses its value over time. Forcing your to speculate on zombie companies on the stock market or real estate lest it devalues t
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Value can only be established in relative terms.
- Which makes your take not only ignorant, but clownish.
You can compare it to average house prices if you wish:
2016 avg house was 664 BTC
2020 avg house was 45 BTC
2024 avg house is 6BTC
Everything goes to 0 in BTC terms.
Re:Without fiat to give it value.... (Score:5, Insightful)
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It is more of a commodity, yes.
In fact, the US gov considers it a commodity.
Which makes it a Store of Value.
ALL value is subjective.
The value of BTC is as an uncensorable, permissionless, decentralized and unhackable ledger.
Pretty much the best ledger there is. Money is a ledger system.
Its value is in its design. The store and retain the value of productive energey, through space and time.
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Tell that to the CFTC, they disagree with you.
Again, ALL value is subjective. Its value is what is subjectively assigned to it at the margin by anyone who desires it.
Same as water, gold or a grain of sand.
The rise and fall is based on scarcity and demand.
Who the F is pyrite pete? Some useless anon keeps calling me that, I have no idea why.
About the understanding of value. I suggest your read a book or two, as you are still under the impression that value isnt subjective.
You are in fact not way smarter than
Re: Without fiat to give it value.... (Score:2)
Not all value is subjective. In fact, almost all value is derived from one metric, which is the amount of work something costs to make. For bitcoin this is arguable the value of the energy expended.
As for fiat currency, I see hardly anyone understands it for what it is. It is very much not an arbitrary value. The value represents the share it gives you in the BNP of the nation that prints said currency. Which is a very tangible set of goods.
Bitcoin only gets value when people wish it to be, and governments
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I seem to have a stalker.
No, I wont click on your retarded links.
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In short, [Bitcoin] will make the rich much richer in a much shorter time than currently possible. And it does this by impoverishment the rest. This has not worked out too well, historically speaking, for most countries.
Very much as I speculate. [slashdot.org]
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No, all value is subjective.
The most valuable thing on earth is air, but its abundant and free.
Same goes for water. People subjectively value bottled water for convenience, however someone else might never or has never bought a bottle of water in his life and refuses to do so. To that person the price is too high.
Someone stuck in an enclosed place that might have to buy air and is running out would pay ANY price for it.
As for the value of production, that is also subjective and people make decisions on that
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Its irrelevant what currency a governement wants to pay your taxes in, if you can convert to it when tax season comes.
Whats important is if someone else will take your currency in exchange for a service or product.
Until it is accepted more, in the mean time it is the best Store of Value as a commodity in history. With the fastest adoption.
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if you can convert to it when tax season comes
That, however, contains currency speculation risk, which has an actual cost. Also, if someone else realizes that you are going to have to pay your taxes (easy because it happens at a specific time every year) they can essentially do a short squeeze and push up the price even more. That means that the optimum is to immediately convert approximately the right amount to pay your taxes.
Re: Without fiat to give it value.... (Score:2)
https://tax.colorado.gov/crypt... [colorado.gov]
Also Detroit. You and I live in different worlds with different filters of reality.
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Interesting
I had heard some States where starting to accept Bitcoin for tax payments.
Dennis Porter is doing amazing work with local, States and nation state governments.
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They will soon all accept USDT stable coin. In my opinion within the next 4 years.
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If the money you save goes up 25-50% CAGR every year.
The few fees you have to pay to convert to pay the taxes are irrelevant.
Or slowly transfert to USDT stable coin during the year to save up to pay your taxes.
If you needed proof (Score:2, Interesting)
Gambling is an addictive drug (Score:2)
...and the addicts are on the high part of the curve before the inevitable crash
more "Pump" before the dump (Score:2)
...and the addicts are on the high part of the curve before the inevitable crash
Yep, once again at the "Pump" part of the pump-and-dump cycle.
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Bitcoin's security comes from having enough miners pumping computing resources into processing transactions that it's impractical for anybody to overwhelm them. That is, Bitcoin's security is inherently linked to the cost of the computation going into transaction processing.
Once the reward becomes insignificant (1) transaction fees will rise to cover the true cost, (2) fewer processors will contribute fewer resources, decreasing security, or (3) some combination of (1) and (2).
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Its a concern for sure, but whats not always taken into account is that the value of Bitcoin going up every 4 years forever.
The same fee (1-10 stats per vb) per transaction will dramaticly be more valuable over time.
As mining becomes less profitable, institutions or people with high reserves in Bitcoin will run their own miner simply to protect their voice/vote on the protocol, keeping it decentralised and secure.
Take for example Michael Saylor, his company Microstrategy owns 274000 (approx) bitcoins. Event
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Well, you wrote more than "study bitcoin." I guess that's something?
Well, I guess when you start from that assumption many things are possible. You're essentially arguing that the price of electricity and computers will go to zero because they're being paid for with bitcoin, the value of which is going to infinity. Do forgive me for being skeptical.
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Being skeptical is healthy.
Everything Divided by 21 million - Knut Svanholm
Great book. Your going to infinity comment reminded me of this one.
But another good one would be The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth.
speculation (Score:3)
I think what we see with Crypto and what we've seen with meme stocks has a lot to do with income. More people are feeling like their best bet is to gamble, because the prospect of working hard and never getting anywhere is awful. It may seem like wages have increased but GDP has been growing faster than wages since the 70s.
https://www.statista.com/chart... [statista.com]
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Well, sometimes it's very easy to gamble.
I bought a German S&P500 ETF, leveraged, on 4th of November. It was pretty easy to guess that after US election - no matter who won - those would go up. USD would go up too, so since I'm investing in EUR I'd be bringing home even more. So far I'm up 15% over one week. I'm basically just having a sliding stop-loss order on that investment so that when it finally starts to drop, I'll just cash out.
Bitcoin would have been another candidate, but if Trump won, it would rocket (as we have seen), but if Harris had won, it probably would have dropped. So going with traditional stocks was pretty much a "safe" gamble.
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I think you mean "inflation". GDP is economic output. You absolutely expect it to grow faster than inflation. Even if your economy is completely stagnant it should at least be growing with population growth, but the goal isn't to be stagnant. It's to drive efficiencies, and since we had the introduction of things such as computers and advanced manufacturing since the 70s you should expect GDP to massively outgrow wages. Which is has.
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> you should expect GDP to massively outgrow wages
Why? Higher GDP is an indicator of profits too. Where would I expect the profits to go if not to wages? We are not experiencing an 'all boats rise' scenario.
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His point was that there is more population thus wages are divided into a greater pool. In this regard he is right.
On the other hand, prices should fall to the marginal cost of production. Technology increases productivity driving down the cost of production.
That increased productivity is being robbed by monetary inflation, on top of the CPI price inflation avg of 2%.
Prices should fall, which would benefit all society and protect your savings through time (in the future).
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While monetary inflation is part of it, and could be addressed with Quantitative Tightening (plenty of room for that right now), it is our unfair tax system that robs most of us. Since Reagan we've given tax cuts to those at the top. Rather than creating a trickle-down effect it has created a trickle-up effect.
Our new leader is going to start by extending tax cuts for the rich. Then he is going to implement tariffs on imported goods, which is an indirect tax on those that purchase imported goods (everyone).
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It cant because the debt is too big.
They must inflate the debt away or the whole economy will implode.
Nothing stops the money printer.
Taxes are a pitance incomparison to the debt. The interest payments, eventually will be larger than the tax receipts.
What creates the trickly up effect is monetary inflation. Which causes currency debasement for anyone that does not hold assets.
From real estate, to gold, securities, etc... even Bitcoin, all assets go up when there is monetary inflation. And anyone who already
Re:speculation (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm convinced it's all just 1%ers who are trying to play a game of financial chicken with each other, since the only way to expand your wealth at that income level is to scam it from your peers.
That's pretty much the way I see it too - essentially a group of "crypto bros" trying to wrestle the current financial system away from the "Wall Street bros" with one of their own making, so they become the 1%ers and end up being the ones oppressing the poorer folks.
Basically, making a system that's way worse than the one we have now, and happily boasting about it. So much for "taking power away from government and restoring it to the people" and it all being "about freedom" for the common folk.
I threw away my bitcoin (Score:2)
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Tulips bubble poped once.
Bubbles don't keep popping, like clockwork, every 4 years and rally back up to higher highs and higher lows.
Study Bitcoin.
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Demand and scarcity.
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The issuance is halved every 4 years in the protocol.
This makes the issuance scarcer every 4 years.
Its part of what makes it scare.
We are at 19.7 million Bitcoins so far, only 21 million will every be issued.
The last Bitcoin, because of the halving ever four years, is going to take years to mine. I think something like 32 years.
Bitcoin is trading on the fundamentals (Score:2)
The fundamental that a con artist will soon move into the White House.
Upcoming policies (Score:2)
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Which Bubble Will Burst First? (Score:2)
Cryptocurrency
Real Estate
Healthcare
Student Loans
Stock Market
2008 was really bad, but the next one is going to be a serious doozy. And our national debt is getting to the point that we may have trouble printing ourselves out of our next mess.
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In your list of bubbles, the FIAT monetary system should be on top, as you clearly detailed in your last sentence.
All crypto coins are scams. Bitcoin is not.
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Sorry but all crypto is also fiat, including bitcoin. Its not backed by anything.
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You should look up the defintion of FIAT. It doesnt mean unbacked. It means "By decree".
No one is dictating the value of Bitcoin and the end of a gun.
Its protocol and properties are maintained by consensus on a decentralised network.
The value is subjectively priced at the margin by the open free market.
It derives its value from its monetary properties of being absolutely scarce, uncensorrable, permissionless, unhackable and fungible.
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Just because its not at the end of a gun doesn't mean that bitcoin's value is not set by decree. A decree by consensus of a virtual network is still a decree. Decree by market makers is also a decree. The only way for it to not get value by decree is for it to be backed by something. Otherwise its always going to boil down to a group of people agreeing on a value, then by decree of the group, setting the price. Literally fiat money.
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Free market consensus is not a government decree.
There is absolutely no relation between the two.
The consensus is on the protocol of the network, not the value of the asset.
There is no decree by market makers. Value is always subjective and assets and securities are priced at the margin (what the last person is willing to pay for it).
It reprices all previous units of the asset, if confirmed, by other buyers agreeing to pay the price.
When something is backed by something else (like gold on a monetary gold st
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Free market consensus is not a government decree.
I didn't say it was. I said it was a decree, not a government decree.
The consensus is on the protocol of the network, not the value of the asset.
There is a consensus on the value of the asset that is orthogonal to the implementation details of the protocol.
There is no decree by market makers.
The price is discovered at the margin, and the decree from the market is that the margin price is the price.
When something is backed by something else (like gold on a monetary gold standard), the price/value of the gold is also priced at the margin by an open free market.
When something is backed by gold, you can redeem it for a physical asset. The value is linked to the utility value of a physical asset, in the real world. The way the price of the underlying asset is discovered is irrelev
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I think our disagreement stems from the fact that you use the word decree in complete opposition to its actual definition.
Decree is not consensus.
Decree litteraly must come from an authority, be it a court, ruler, governement or religious organisation. (Look up the defintion from any source you wish or all of them).
Price discovery is not decree, as there is no authority behind that discovery and its in constant flow of change.
The market is not an authority.
I understand the long held belief that a physical a
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Decree litteraly must come from an authority, be it a court, ruler, governement or religious organisation.
Yes, like the group of people we would call "market participants".
as there is no authority behind that discovery
Ok, try and buy something at a price different than the one discovered by the market and report back how that worked out. Hate to break it to you, but the invisible hand is holding your leash.
I understand the long held belief that a physical asset is required or desired to back a monetary system. But it isnt.
We know that because the FIAT system functions, albeit poorly.
Your words, not mine. I never said any of this.
Money is simply a ledger.
Exactly. If the money is backed by something, its a ledger of commodity obligations. If its fiat, like bitcoin, its a ledger of nothing. Again, if all it took to not be fiat was for money to be a ledger, USD would not be fiat.
Decrees litteraly do not boil down to individuals making decision in a free and open market
You moved the goalposts again. I didn't say decrees were a market action. I said that decrees are done by individuals making decisions.
Again, please find a different word for what you are trying to convey, because it definitely is not "decree".
Sure.. if you find a different word to convey what you mean when you use "fiat".
Thanks for the book ideas. The bitcoin one from 2023 looks hilarious.
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Market participants do not decree anything, they make choices.
Choices are individual and do not dictate to others anything.
FIAT USD only exists because the government by decree says its what needs to be used to settle taxes. Then ensure this by use of force.
USD is a ledger, never said it wasnt, your not following very well. Its just a very poor ledger. And if there was no decree by an authority, NO ONE WOULD USE IT.
Im using FIAT properly. You are using decree to mean choices. You need to go back to school.
I
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They used to be an economist, but then they took an arrow to the knee.
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Study Bitcoin
Don't buy until you do.
It'll go up regardless if you do or dont.
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Broken Money is a great book by Lyn Alden
Here is a teaser video of what the book touches on.
https://youtu.be/jk_HWmmwiAs [youtu.be]
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Donald J. Trump and his appointees would be friendlier to the industry after the Biden administration's aggressive enforcement of securities law that targeted several crypto companies.
I'm not sure "friendlier because they might not enforce the law" is really the good thing you think it is -- oh... wait.
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Musk made a fair bit of money doing a pump-and-dump on Dogecoin, his favourite meme coin.
Also noting this [coindesk.com] naming "coincidence": (*sigh*)
Elon Musk's public discussions about forming a real "Department of Government Efficiency" (D.O.G.E.) to streamline government spending have spurred the rise of this parody token.
Google: musk department of government efficiency doge [google.com]
Tesla transferred 11.5k bitcoins last month (Score:2)
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I have a feeling, and I might be wrong here, its really just speculation, that Tesla transfered their Bitcoin to another custodian.
In this case I think it might be Howard Lutniks Cantor Fitzgerald.
They are known friends, Lutnik is on Trumps transition team.
He announced that Cantor Fitzgerald would become some sort of Bitcoin bank.
Tesla might be one of their first customers and the 11500 BTC might serve as a reserve asset for BTC backed loans or something, generating yield for Tesla.
I could be completely wro
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Also, Elon has no need to "take profits" as he just borrows against his shares to fund his life and other ventures.
The wealthy never sell their assets, they just borrow against them and let them increase in value forever.
Borrowing like this, when using the right method, only requires paying down the interest, which can be paid using the borrowed funds.
Principal never has to be paid.
And any sums borrowed isnt a taxable event, so when you borrow 50 million dollars, there is no tax to pay, like when you "take
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He was wrong, obviously, thats because he had not studied the Bitcoin cycle.
Bitcoin has a 4 year cycle. Directionaly up over 4 years every time.
3 years green, 1 year red.
In 2021 It was in the last green year of the cycle, close to its ATH.
2022 was the red year where it pulled back 75% (approx) down to 16k.
2023, 2024, 2025 are the green years again, and 2026 will be the next pull back, if history repeats itself again.
Making price predictions, IMO, is silly. But with BTC you can easily make directional predic
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. 3 years green, 1 year red.
Funny how that just happens to coincide with Republican vs Democrat governments - as someone in the news said, seems Bitcoin is inextricably tied to toxicity.
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Has nothing to do with Republican vs Democrat governements.
Its been doing that for the last 4 cycles.
Look at a BTC chart after the 2020 Election it shot up as well to new ATH.
Its about being the scarcest asset, the halving of issuance and less coins being available during the cycle at some point.
But mainly, it has to do with monetary inflation, M2 money supply and the money printer.
Some do believe the 4 year cycle in the code was deliberatly made to follow the US election cycle as that is when most of the m
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It is artificially scarce and not an asset.
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Artificial scarcity, if secure, is better than eternaly inflationary, like FIAT money is by design.
Better for what? Use as a currency? No. Matching with economic growth? No. Allowing more efficient widespread use as the "coin" comes into more uses? No.
Artificial scarcity is better for one thing only. Use as a platform for speculation. However, that also contains the inevitability of collapse.
Dollars can be printed widely enough that everybody who carries out economic activity can have one. Which means that it's possible to raise taxes in them. Which gives them a real incontestable value as a method of transferring real economic value. The fact that the slowly devalue means that the link to economic activity is maintained and maintainable. If a dollar is lost down a drain, that's not just a measure of economic value that disappears forever, instead it gradually evaporates and the value returns to the system.
If a bitcoin wallet is lost, the coins in it keep increasing in value. Look at the insanity of the man who lost a hard disk in a rubbish dump. What used to have the value of a pizza when lost now has the value of a space rocket. That's a sign of a sick system.
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Dollars can be printed widely enough that everybody who carries out economic activity can have one. (...) The fact that the[y] slowly devalue means that the link to economic activity is maintained and maintainable.
As you point out, the system of fiat currencies have inflation built in, but that is at odds with its function of fairly bookkeeping ones' reward for their economic activity. Money replaced barter and enabled quantification of economic activity as well as storage by carrying some portable token (seashells, beads, gemstones, coins, banknotes, silver, gold) enabling easy storage and deferring of receiving ones' reward. Most tokens turned out to be woefully inadequate because they lacked scarcity. And today w
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- after all losing 2% is still better than losing 4%.
Theres so much magical thinking in all this, which is often to complex to pick hole in, but in this case it's very simple.
If you are only losing 2% in a 4% inflation economy, that means that you have to actually be returning 102% of original investment (approximately - actually 104% * 98%). That means that you are actually returning more than you put in, just not quite enough more to cover your investment costs.
And in fact, although you have a potentially profitable business, the effect is completely the op
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Improved productivity brings the cost of goods and services down, not up.
When prices deflate from increased productivity, the whole of society benefits and becomes richer.
Calculated inflation, as you described ROBS society of this boost in productivity.
Yes but no. Inflation, or the price of what was produced, doesn't change the fact that productivity occured and society now has greater produce at its disposal. Society as a whole is not robbed, but printing money does function as a level of tax that transfers part of that wealth to the government. Compared to income and company tax I'd suggest this is relatively minor and constant?
And of course deflation is considered undesirable because it feeds into the paradox of thrift. Almost a form of prisoner's dile
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If the productivity is increased and technology reduces the cost of production, the prices should fall.
If it doesnt fall, someone or a system has siphoned out the increase in productivity.
Does it cost more or less to produce a can of Coka Cola today, vs 125 years ago?
Inflation is a much bigger transfer of wealth over time than taxes. Considering the purchasing power of 1$ from over a 100 years ago is less than a nickle today.
Deflation is considered undesirable because our economy currently runs on debt. And
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If the productivity is increased and technology reduces the cost of production, the prices should fall.
You are confusing falling prices with increasing purchasing power. As resources get scarcer and as s there are more people the actual value of each thing increases. Thus, prices should naturally increase. That's before you take into account the simple cost of maintaining money, which is high for fiat currencies but is phenomenal for something like Bitcoin.
Every bitcoin that has to be kept in the system has an ongoing cost in terms of the size of the system. That could be justified if Bitcoin promoted suffic
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I'm not confusing anything.
The ressources to make a can of coka cola isnt getting scarcer. Technology and falling price of energy is improving effecient production and reducing the costs yearly. The only reason it goes up in nominal price is because of monetary inflation which leads to monetary debasement and loss of purchasing power.
Prices naturaly decrease. Because everything is priced at the marginal cost of production.
The cost of maintaining the Bitcoin network is high, but it is much lower than it is f
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I'm here telling people to study it. Seriously. Don't buy it until you do, because you'll just sell after a little profit and still not understand it.
Hodl hodl hodl. Because the best use for a currency is keeping it forever under your bed so nobody can buy anything with it so that it ends up with absolutey zero value but infinite price. As the whales keep dropping and reinflating the price on their agree schedules they don't want little people disturbing that by selling when it's high. Hodl.
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Same as people do with gold.
Or worse with real estate to protect their purchasing power, creating problems in affordable housing.
Whats your point?
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Or worse with real estate to protect their purchasing power, creating problems in affordable housing.
Whats your point?
I can support the idea that it would be nice if real estate was not speculated upon, but it's a great comparison here and shines a really strong light on the comparison with bitcoin. Real estate has concrete value. Even at the top, most crazy speculative end, there is, and there can be only one 57th street in New York. If you have a building there, then you have direct access to the places where the most important financial people in the world go. When you invest in something like that there is no way for a
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> Your opinion is irrelevant if everyone else in the world thinks differently.
I wasn't aware Blackrock represents the whole world of "everyone". When did we vote on that?
Very few people on the planet agree with you. The only reason BR is involved is they never saw a scam they didn't like.
The government is involved to slap some rules on the corrupt whales who manipulate bitcoin fucking over all the little people who don't know better.
I wonder, are you a whale or a sheep? Hoe many bitcoin do you own? D
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That only comes after mutltiple attemps to get someone to understand they need to study more and them refusing.
And never comes when arguments are sound and further discussion.
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It's related to the halving and central bank liquidity cycles. Not political parties.
You can research all of that if you're interested.
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I guess it's that jealousy and shame of having missed out.
If everyone who read about bitcoin on slashdot had bought a trivial amount of it (say $10 just for curiosity, an amount you can easily afford to lose worst case) when the first story came out, they would be sitting on thousands right now.
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As opposed to the damage the theft of productivity FIAT has caused over the last century?
Or all the wars it has funded?
There will be turbulance during a transition. But a hard money that cant be F'ed with, is inherently better for society over time, than what we have now.
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Sure
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pd... [bitcoin.org]
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It is about a global money (accounting system) that cannot be cheated/inflated by elites, leaving everyone else holding the bag.
Hardly. [slashdot.org]
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cbeaudry's Bitcon pushing [urbandictionary.com] [posts] outnumber any other individual's post counts on this story.
Indeed. I can't help but notice that reading cbeaudry's responses feel like you're listening to a Republican talking - either them addressing (not answering) direct questions with nonsensical gibberish (aka word salad [cnn.com]) or simply deflecting their hypocrisy while accusing others of the misdeeds they themselves make, or simply refusing to actually answer direct questions repeatedly put to them [cnn.com] with the same tactics ad infinitum.
Speaks volumes (of nothingness).
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refusing to actually answer direct questions repeatedly put to them [cnn.com] with the same tactics ad infinitum
... or selectively choosing to totally ignore others, I might add.
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I am not American, thus not Republican. But that is irrelevant.
Which direct questions did I not answer?
Almost everyone of my responses have broken down the posts line by line and addressed every point. (Anyone can look up the history in this thread).
If you do not understand something (that does not mean agree), it can seem like nonsensical gibberish.
There has been no deflecting in any of my comments.
If I missed a question, let me know which, I will adresse it, it most certainly was not intentional on my par
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I am not American, thus not Republican.
Which I never said you were - you seem to be as deficient in your reading skills as you accuse others to be.
Which direct questions did I not answer?
Oh I see - you're going to "play dumb" and claim you have no clue what I mean, right?
(Anyone can look up the history in this thread)
Including yourself - so you can easily look up the threads in which you never responded where it was clear to anyone a response was expected (which of course you'll start answering now to try to 'prove me wrong', ignoring the obvious gaps in time between the original posts and this reply in which you had plenty of tim
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If you say so.
I'll wait for you to point it out.
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Hm, yeah. Ok. Sure, since you're too lazy to do it yourself, I'll be happy to - but I'm sure you know the saying: "Time is money", and I value my time and don't do others' work for free.
My rate is $80 USD/hour, with a 4 hour minimum. Where shall I send the bill?
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Then you don't get a response.
I'm fine with that.
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There you go [slashdot.org] - someone called you out on your supposed "unintentional" ignoring of their response, to which you have yet to respond in over 1 full day so far.
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Oh, you and your Anonymous Coward alter ego actually expect people to say how much money they have in a specific invested on the internet?
That's certainly some kind of stupid.
Answer: More then either of you, obviously, and not enough considering my understanding of it.
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cbeaudry's Bitcon pushing [urbandictionary.com] shitposts outnumber any other individual's post counts on this story.
Actually at this point, I'm leaning more that it's a bot running on a bad version of ChatGPT.