Today, McDonalds, Starbucks, Pizza Hut, and others accept bitcoin in El Salvador

Discussion in 'Crypto Assets' started by johnarb, Sep 7, 2021.

  1. JSOP

    JSOP

    Cryptocurrency is not a savings/investment account. It's a method of payment and now just another tradable commodity. Cryptocurrency is a poor storage of value in itself as I have stated in one of my previous posts in this thread. You want to use it that's fine but one should have an objective recognition of what cryptocurrency is.
     
    #71     Sep 9, 2021
  2. cesfx

    cesfx

    You might be correct in theory, but in practice it has been my best store of value since 2017 (and probably in my life), and I consider myself a very late starter on crypto saving.

    I traded in and out BTC at 150$, Eth at 16$ before 2017, then started storing some during that year.
    Never felt 100% safe, but what does?
     
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  3. JSOP

    JSOP

    Not if you bought them at the peak of March - May of this year. The prices haven't recovered ever since. For those people who bought them at the peak, that's hardly a store of value. So far crypto is really behaving like any other tradable commodity like pork belly. If you don't consider pork belly as a store of value, you shouldn't consider cryptocurrency as one either.
     
    #73     Sep 9, 2021
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  4. JSOP

    JSOP

    #74     Sep 9, 2021
  5. He says, "Private money always collapses sooner or later".

    Whereas fiat money is continually collapsing as they make more of it.
     
    #75     Sep 10, 2021
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  6. johnarb

    johnarb

    update on the El Salvador bitcoin adoption (from the president):

    2 new Chivo Facts:
    1. People are inserting way more USD (to buy #BTC[​IMG]) than what they are withdrawing from the Chivo ATMs (any media outlet can independently confirm this by visiting the ATMs).

    2. Today, we received 24,076 remittances, adding up to $3,069,761.05 (in one day).



     
    #76     Oct 16, 2021
  7. Overnight

    Overnight

    So the president of El Salvador, a nation, has a twitter avatar of a little kid, and not something that is more important, like the country? Maybe her OWN face?

    El Salvador is fucked.

    Twitter. The ruin of severity of life. The world is a joke now with all these fuckers on their smartphones. God damned smartphones. Presidents of countries, like El Salvador and the US, are being brought down because their leaders are becoming addicted to "social media". Fucking morons.

    After all, Trump announced a world-changing policy move about China trade through fucking Twitter, in the middle of an August afternoon.

    The earth is doomed. I am so glad I will not be on this planet much longer.
     
    #77     Oct 17, 2021
  8. Ed48

    Ed48

    Yep, we're slowly destroying it with our consumption, waste and pollution. I'm glad I don't have young kids with what's in store for them.

    But don't worry, human ingenuity can fix/solve anything. :rolleyes:
     
    #78     Oct 17, 2021
  9. johnarb

    johnarb

    The president is a millennial and active on social media

    We're getting too old for this stuff, but we have ET :D
     
    #79     Oct 17, 2021
  10. TheDawn

    TheDawn

    Update on what's happening to El Salvadore's bitcoin investment:

    https://fortune.com/2022/06/14/how-much-did-el-salvador-invest-in-bitcoin-worth-value/

    So far they have already lost 50% of what they invested albeit unrealized. I guess it's a good thing that it's only amounting to 0.X% of the budget. They didn't put everything into it. But they were counting on the BTC making money for them and helping with their finance. I guess that will have to wait.
     
    #80     Jun 30, 2022