Cryptocurrency reality

I agree with OP

But as the saying goes, "..........there is always a rally in something......"

I trade the garbage, mostly in the long direction, which you have to admit has been powerful. Taking a rest, well that is natural.
 
Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger insisted they would never purchase Bitcoin because you cannot cash it in. Is this true or not. I keep seeing a lot of “ hand waving” going on when this gets asked. Keep on trucking.

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Bitcoin confuses me as an investment because it doesn't grow like a mutual fund. Mutual funds pay capital gains, I re invest for additional shares. Those shares then pay capital gains. The cycle repeats.

Years later, I have a whole bunch of shares paying lots for capital gains.

But owning bitcoin doesn't create more ownership periodically.
Think of it the same way you'd buy and hold USD or gold. It's not a stock or collection of stocks. It's currency meant for exchange.
 
Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger insisted they would never purchase Bitcoin because you cannot cash it in. Is this true or not.
You can sell your bitcoin for USD at the market rate. The problem is you can't walk into a store and by your groceries with any crypto.
 
Im hoping I am still alive if and when. I have owned XRP from that days it could only be bought from overseas exchanges. (yes that was scary) *LOL*
I have a fair amount of it but it doesnt amount to much AT ALL being I only paid around 30 cents cents a coin.
Time will tell.
Im just posting this as a follow up to @wwillson
Crypto is used and I agree, someday it will come onto its own. IN this case, overseas bank transactions have used this coin or its infrastructure approx for 10 years now. XRP (Ripple)

I have no clue anymore what it does. Haven't followed it but the change in pricing has me concerned enough to get it off a hard drive in my house someplace and into Coinbase. At the time Coinbase did not store XRP for you.

There will be a coin and I suspect the USA will somehow create one. Im clueless really, been out of the for a long time. Sadly I sold my bitcoins for a 40% profit many years back at $11,000 a coin Oh well! Life is good, money can't buy health as long as gas you can afford good housing, food and health care.

Just because I am posting this doesn't mean I am a believer in this coin, I just happen to have it. I dont think it's going to replace anything. I do believe something will one day. But this coin is used by financial institutions just for those who say coins are a passing "fluff"


Just another source below=
  • Partnerships with leading banks: As early as 2017, 100 financial institutions had joined the Ripple network, seeing value in the new, innovative cross-border payment model. These institutions included Santander, AMEX, Mitsubishi UFJ and more. Since then, Ripple has delivered on its promise to remove friction in cross-border payments. For example, Korean remittance provider, SentBe, saved its customers $25m in FX conversion and transaction fees with RippleNet. Similarly, Travelex Bank uses Ripple’s global payments network to settle cross-border payments almost instantly.
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    https://calebandbrown.com/blog/what-is-xrp/
 
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I’m interested in that. Could you please sell just one and show us the transfer to your bank account. I believe they are around $86,000 today.
LOL, I don't own any bitcoin, my opinion is that bitcoin is garbage and will eventually go away. The main bitcoin blockchain can only do three transactions/second. Proof of work is just silliness.

Until a crypto becomes acceptable for payment at the grocery store, they are all just speculative.
 
You can sell your bitcoin for USD at the market rate. The problem is you can't walk into a store and by your groceries with any crypto.
My local Walmart doesn’t accept euro or peso’s either.

It was intended as an alternate median of exchange outside governments or banking cartels. That concept has of course been corrupted by banks and governments.

I don’t know what bitcoin is currently. Probably not a currency. To say it’s not an asset means you don’t understand money.
 
With BTC you don't need a military to defend your property rights. You could "take" my BTC and you'd be unable to spend it, it would remain mine.
I'm talking about forcing others to use your currency - one of the strongest incentives for countries to continue to use our fiat currency.
 
I have always had the opinion that it is monopoly money. It has value only because someone thinks it has value. The bitcoin bubble will burst eventually.
If you invest in tulip bulbs at least you can have flowers in the spring. With gold you have something you can hold in your hand. With any crypto all you have is the hope that someone will buy your imaginary asset for more than you paid.

I can easily take a silver dollar or any gold coin and get cash for it in my small town today.
 
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My personal belief is cryptocurrency is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the world economy . Till someone can prove me different I will never touch it , Bitcoin could drop down to $2 and the most I would invest in it is $2 . I guess this is more of a rant , why would anybody buy something that isn't real ? Can I say hey Pete I have two bitcoins worth $186,000 , will you give me 15 acres of land for it ? Never going to happen . Rant over
Try paying off 186,000 with your stock in company xyx instantly. You are underthinking the. The part that is "coin" is clouding your understanding.

If you had $40,00 in bitcoin a year ago you would have $100,000 today.
Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger insisted they would never purchase Bitcoin because you cannot cash it in. Is this true or not. I keep seeing a lot of “ hand waving” going on when this gets asked. Keep on trucking.

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You conveniently did lot look at a year ago or 5 years ago
 
I have a friend who invested in BTC early on. 6 years later he sold it and became a millionaire and retired by his mid 20s.

I put $200 in it in 2014. If I kept up with it, it would be worth $23,000 today. I don't know any other investment that has a 2000% rate.

IMO you treat it like any other stock investment; you can't compare it to using cash.
 
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This concept has existed for 30 years. If you haven't researched the 1996 NSA white paper, take a look see.

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm

If you think for more than 5 seconds that BTC is some sort of saving grace for the world financial situation, put the pipe down and slowly walk away. The tricks these guys have up their sleeve will make your head spin.
 
My personal belief is cryptocurrency is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the world economy . Till someone can prove me different I will never touch it , Bitcoin could drop down to $2 and the most I would invest in it is $2 . I guess this is more of a rant , why would anybody buy something that isn't real ? Can I say hey Pete I have two bitcoins worth $186,000 , will you give me 15 acres of land for it ? Never going to happen . Rant over
Look at ntf's or even stock. If a company goes bust you have nothing.
 
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