CoinDesk finally comes clean

Discussion in 'Crypto Assets' started by Pekelo, Dec 12, 2021.

  1. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    I apologize, I don't read everything (like the last few posts) but this poked my eye...

    First, it is not because of unlimited forking, but sure...

    Second, so is my shit. I am not going to live forever so the number of shits I am going to produce is limited. THAT itself alone doesn't make it valuable. My shit can be easily replaced by your shit. There is nothing unique about it.

    It also have utility value!! You can use it for manuring or for fecal transfer. How much should I send you, because you like to overvalue easily replaced products with little utility value?? :)

    Seriously guys, I don't get it... Why so upset about the ponzi thingy? As long as you are making money why do you care about the classification??

    Also, just because the US pension system is a ponzi, that doesn't make crypto LESS of a ponzi...

    "It is OK to invest in a ponzi, as long as you are aware of its risk." --- Batu Khan
     
    #31     Dec 13, 2021
  2. this drivel doesn't warrant a reply. i think you've proven who the real high-schooler is - although bringing your shit into the debate makes you sound more like a preschooler.
     
    #32     Dec 13, 2021
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  3. If you fork bitcoin it’s no longer bitcoin, it’s something else entirely. Bitcoin does have a fixed supply.

    If you think bitcoin has the same utility as your shit well I can’t help ya there. Read my last post I’d love to hear a serious rebuttal.
    I’m being serious. There is certainly concerns and counterpoints to thinking bitcoin is going to 500k/coin, but this certainly isn’t that.
     
    #33     Dec 13, 2021
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    a few graphs on the state of inflation. we all have to choose a currency to ride out this storm.
     
    #34     Dec 13, 2021
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  5. Ed48

    Ed48

    How much of their life savings could someone put in BTC and still sleep at night? Get the timing wrong and the $value of your savings could halve in a few months.
     
    #35     Dec 14, 2021
  6. I would love to have an honest/intellectual convo with bitcoin skeptics about the many data points that could be bitcoin reg flags (totally serious)

    will @Pekelo and others explain their skepticism? Or just go low because there actually isn’t anything there / he hasn’t really thought this through? Would welcome a discussion
     
    #36     Dec 14, 2021
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  7. deaddog

    deaddog

    I would like to know exactly what bitcoin is? Why it's worth 67K one month and then 47K a month or two later? How does it differ from Dutch Tulips? How do I value it?
     
    #37     Dec 14, 2021
  8. maxinger

    maxinger

    I see it this way;

    it raised from 1 digit to 5 digits.
    perhaps it might go to 6 digits.

    Then mother-of-all-Tulip-Mania happens.

    and it will drop from 5 to 4 to 3 to 2 to 1 to 0 digit.

    History always repeats itself.
    Because humans have been programmed to be very greedy and
    very fearful.
     
    #38     Dec 14, 2021
  9. i see btc as a currency. except easier to transfer and move around internationally. in theory, in the future property could be encoded as an nft and could be bought and sold without any intermediaries and documented on the blockchain - but that's a tangent.

    *edit- i need to improve my explanation
     
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    #39     Dec 14, 2021
  10. deaddog

    deaddog

    Would you accept bitcoin as a currency today? Knowing that the value could drop in half by the time you want to spend it?

    You didn't address the Dutch tulip thing.

    We'll have to carry this conversation on later as I've got a 5 hr drive ahead of me today.
     
    #40     Dec 14, 2021