On the flip-side, the middle class now is nothing as bad as comparable to the slums in England during the 19'th century. As an industrial worker, you were expected to work 80+ hours, not the 40 now adays. And your take-home pay was not even enough to cover your basics of living. Very little government support.
If you wait until the 16th, you can repeat this for the next 3 years. The 2017 ATH wasn't reached again until 3 years later in 2020 November.
In the same way trillions of $ are sitting on money market accounts during this bear market in equities, to stay on the sidelines
Exactly why US and western world will be just fine, and the answer is social programs that at bare minimum give people food and roof
So stable coins meet the criteria of being a medium of exchange and a store of at least short term value. I take it they don't need the trusted third party and can be transfered peer to peer. (I hold USDT in my wallet and can transfer them to you without going through a bank) The only drawback is they are tied to the dollar which is controlled by governments. I would think if I were worried about the value of my country's currency, stable coin would be a better option than bitcoin, especially during a crypto winter.
Yes, you can transfer it to my address directly without any intermediaries, 24/7/365 Like any crypto asset, the local crypto wallet broadcasts the transaction on the network and recorded on the blockchain via validators (POW miners or POS stakers) I thought you like cash, this is the same as holding US $ but you control 24/7/365 no bank hours or holidays or bank has control over it every time you make a big transaction you worry if the bank may ask for documentation or if you offend your government they can ask the bank to freeze it like the Emergency Act And like the US $, it has outperformed the Canadian $ in value this past year The worry with Tether is that it's issued by a centralized company Tether Company that everyone says does not have the backing of 65 Billions USDT 1-to-1 with US $ but that's been around for a long time In Turkey and other places, you can use Tether to buy groceries in the markets
What is YOUR 10 year return on BTC? With your 23 losses in a row you at least are record holder for that. Why do I have this feeling that things are gonna get awfully quiet?