I thought we already agreed you can't corner bitching about the dollar. The others steal so we can steal too argument is getting old. Shouldn't a new currency be more noble and better? Irregardless...
Some friend of mine made an interesting point that you can think of bitcoin as a synthetic put on a basket of EM currencies. The more people are looking to move their cash out of their country, the more acceptance and value bitcoin is going to get.
Not just emerging markets. The first day of a Labour government in 2022 in the UK will see exchange controls introduced. Bitcoin will have a good day then.
So just now people saw some value in BTC and chose to own it ? why not when it was $1 or $10 or even $100 ? Get real guys you are in it just for the "price" , you are paying 7K for a lottery ticket , so why not buy litecoin instead , its just $55 , right ? This will end badly . Greed .
You did that on purpose. Bastud! *shakes fist* Haha omg hate you. As an aside, this new CME BTC futures thing is certainly going to inject some excitement into the crypto markets. Are we seeing the evolution of volatility to a whole new level? I cannot wait to witness the results of this new futures product.
When it comes to Futures trading leverage is everything , so whats the point of trading such a volatile contract if the margin requirements are very high ? Why would i be excited ? I may as well trade oil instead with much lower margin requirements . One should compare daily range to margin requirements .