VanEck says Bitcoin could hit $4.8M if it became the global reserve asset

Discussion in 'Crypto Assets' started by johnarb, Apr 1, 2022.

  1. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    Obviously NFTs. At least cryptos have some usefulness.

    But I digress, NFTs are useful too. They separate an idiot and his money. :)
     
    #81     Apr 3, 2022
  2. sridhga

    sridhga


    In India, you cannot pay anyone in Bitcoin. It is used mainly for speculation purposes. India started developing Central Bank backed digital currency, which they want to call "Digital Rupee".
     
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    #82     Apr 3, 2022
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  3. sridhga

    sridhga

    Forgive me for my lack of knowledge. Today BTC miners are keeping those ledgers because they get paid for. But, I heard that only limited BTC can be mined. Now, if that is exhausted, who is going to keep those blockchain ledgers?

    Is this question too dumb? I don't know.

    Maybe I should read one of those books mentioned here to understand BTC.
     
    #83     Apr 3, 2022
  4. Thanks for the info
     
    #84     Apr 3, 2022
  5. johnarb

    johnarb

    You meant "At least Bitcoin has some usefullness" since NFT's are also cryptos

    I actually had NFT's before the Bored Ape but this is the biggest $ purchase

    As far as parting the idiot and his money, hodlers of Bored Ape NFT's have received airdrops, the last one is worth $130K, and the 2 other airdrops are worth $25K and $81K, respectively

    I can always sell the Bored Ape to a bigger idiot, but perhaps, we're not idiots if we get future airdrops and the ones calling us idiots are the real idiots? o_O
     
    #85     Apr 3, 2022
  6. johnarb

    johnarb

    The Bitcoin miners have mined 19M bitcoins so far and the last 2M bitcoins will be completely mined around the year 2140

    After that, the Bitcoin miners will only get the transaction fees

    Currently, the block reward for solving a Bitcoin block is 6.25 bitcoins and it will be cut in half approximately every 4 years (halving)

    Here's the latest Bitcoin block details and you can see the block reward and the transaction fees being paid to the Bitcoin miner that solved the block

    https://www.blockchain.com/btc/bloc...8a30c9b5ec5679b68a139aab4d5fb5f7a7cc893670921
     
    #86     Apr 3, 2022
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  7. deaddog

    deaddog

    Bollocks?? :)
    Try to move dollars from a Canadian US dollar account to someone in the US. Got a friend in the US? Send him 10 bucks.

    I have the problem solved but it's a work around. Nothing easy. I have a US dollar credit card for online purchases. The problem is peer to peer, which crypto solves.(Well not really because you have to convert back to fiat to spend it in most places)
     
    #87     Apr 3, 2022
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  8. M.W.

    M.W.

    I did so with a TD USD account. Where exactly did you get stuck?

     
    #88     Apr 3, 2022
  9. M.W.

    M.W.

    Who sets up those rules and decides on when halving occurs or that it occurs in the first place? Who sets the block rewards and how is the reward exactly determined in a transparent way?

     
    #89     Apr 3, 2022
  10. deaddog

    deaddog

    I got stuck moving money peer to peer. I sent a cheque drawn on a BMO US dollar account to my landlady in the US. Her bank wouldn't cash the cheque. In order to cash the cheque they would have sent it to collections and charged her a fee. ($50 I think). I couldn't sent an interac e-transfer. (only available in Canada at the time). I finally ate the fee and went with paypal.

    How did TD handle it?
     
    #90     Apr 3, 2022
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