Bitcoin/Ethereum/cryptocurrencies

Brownslave688

You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
And that's why bitcoin will 10x at least, from here.
Not sure about this bull run but eventually sure. Plus the rate at which dollars are being produced from thin air.

We don’t know what golds max supply is. They keep finding more and more. We know bitcoins but it’s even less because many thousands have been lost forever.
 

wilberforce15

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Not sure about this bull run but eventually sure. Plus the rate at which dollars are being produced from thin air.

We don’t know what golds max supply is. They keep finding more and more. We know bitcoins but it’s even less because many thousands have been lost forever.
Any gold price hike just makes more people go find more gold. That's an achilles heel. It's really not that great as a store of value.
 

El Correcto

god is dead
Store of value.

Gold has around a 10 trillion dollar market cap filling that role.
Gold also has a millennium track record of being valuable to human beings for various reasons. It’s a precious metal.

Bitcoin is literally nothing in my eyes with a shoddy track record of shady pump and dump schemes.
 

wilberforce15

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Gold also has a millennium track record of being valuable to human beings for various reasons. It’s a precious metal.

Bitcoin is literally nothing in my eyes with a shoddy track record of shady pump and dump schemes.
Bitcoin is the best performing asset in the past decade. Volatility shrinks with market cap for all stocks, currencies, and everything in the world.

If you had all the world's known gold thousands of years ago, you woudln't even be all that rich if you brought to today.

Why? Gold inflates just like a fiat currency.
 

El Correcto

god is dead
Bitcoin is the best performing asset in the past decade. Volatility shrinks with market cap for all stocks, currencies, and everything in the world.

If you had all the world's known gold thousands of years ago, you woudln't even be all that rich if you brought to today.

Why? Gold inflates just like a fiat currency.
You don’t think bitcoin’s price is inflated right now?
 

wilberforce15

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You don’t think bitcoin’s price is inflated right now?
Of course not. This isn't a stock where you can discount future cash flows, measure assets, or any other thing.

it's a reserve, secured asset that can also do transactions.

It is better than gold at every function gold tries to accomplish. It will overtake gold in market cap and use as time goes on. That means it has at least a 10x left in it, and I'd guess that's within the next few years.


When new tech replaces old, the available runway is almost endless. That's why tesla was "overvalued" when it was 80% lower than it currently is.
 

wilberforce15

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Cryptocurrencies are not even a finite thing, when people can just create more. Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash, Ethereum, etc.

Each individual currency is a finite thing. Those all have completely different roles, and it would do you well to learn the difference.

Bitcoin is bad at transactions, but great at storing value. Ethereum is more transactional. Something like Cardano will rule the world in creating smart contracts and apps.

They're all "currencies," but that really sells them all short. They're as different as the precious metals are.
 

El Correcto

god is dead
Each individual currency is a finite thing. Those all have completely different roles, and it would do you well to learn the difference.

Bitcoin is bad at transactions, but great at storing value. Ethereum is more transactional. Something like Cardano will rule the world in creating smart contracts and apps.

They're all "currencies," but that really sells them all short. They're as different as the precious metals are.
What is stopping someone from just copy and pasting bitcoin and creating bitcoin 2 with a fresh source of tapping into more separate from the original but a complete duplicate?
 

wilberforce15

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What is stopping someone from just copy and pasting bitcoin and creating bitcoin 2 with a fresh source of tapping into more separate from the original but a complete duplicate?
Forking has been done. But your'e missing that currencies have a network effect. The more people that join them mean that they grow faster and faster.

it's just like facebook had a hard time getting 10 million users. But 100 million was a little easier. And 1 billion was super easy. Things accelerate once wide adoption starts, becuase everybody finds the need to be on the same network.

Currencies work the same. The adoption rate is just now picking up speed. And the new currency will not attract any users or value unless it actually offers something new. And the 2nd through 8th currencies right now do offer things that are different. There is room for many.

But a mere copy won't ever get any traction anywhere.
 

Brownslave688

You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Each individual currency is a finite thing. Those all have completely different roles, and it would do you well to learn the difference.

Bitcoin is bad at transactions, but great at storing value. Ethereum is more transactional. Something like Cardano will rule the world in creating smart contracts and apps.

They're all "currencies," but that really sells them all short. They're as different as the precious metals are.
I hate how they all
Get lumped in together. It would be like treating gold like it’s a stock.
 

Brownslave688

You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Just reeks of artificial value being manipulated by wealthy people.

at the end of the day even diamonds have real world application, bitcoin doesn’t even have that.
The problem with that argument is wealthy people just literally started dipping their toes in the bitcoin pool.
 
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