Why aren't the governments doing anything?

Discussion in 'Crypto Assets' started by yangnw, Dec 17, 2017.

  1. schweiz

    schweiz

    On the next G20 meeting there will be a discussion about regulations for cryptocurrencies. Was announced today. Italy, France and Germany are pro regulation and against money laundry. things will start to move. Curious about the reaction of the market after the meeting is over.
     
    #31     Dec 18, 2017
  2. yangnw

    yangnw

    U.S. had its senate bill 1241 introduced in May 2017, didn't have its hearing until Nov. Read: bipartisan hatred comes top of the list.

    Finally, Europe to the rescue!

    You missed the point, bitcoin got its hype from its **limited supply**, not virtuality. Governments will be plunging right into Great Depression II if they are stupid enough to re-adapt a gold standard of any sort.

    Well.. It's speculation. Forgive me.
     
    #32     Dec 19, 2017
  3. sle

    sle

    I don't follow your logic. Presence of crypto-coins places no obligation on the government to adopt them as a medium of exchange or even acknowledge their value. Gold is still a store of value even though no countries use the gold standard any more. Gold is remained a store of value even after the governments prohibited posession and transacting in gold. Same might happen with cryptocurrencies or any other medium that we designate as a store of value (diamonds, dirty socks, anything).
     
    #33     Dec 19, 2017
  4. yangnw

    yangnw

    Gold is a commodity. More than 50% of gold is used for jewelry.
     
    #34     Dec 19, 2017
  5. sle

    sle

    The reason gold is used for jewelry is because it’s a perceived store of value. When aluminum was thought to be scarce and valuable, people made aluminum jewelry (19th century France).
     
    #35     Dec 19, 2017
  6. kashirin

    kashirin

    So can you use bitcoin for jewelry? It's scarce and a store of value
     
    #36     Dec 19, 2017
  7. schweiz

    schweiz

  8. kashirin

    kashirin


    All cryptos had market cap $200 bln a month ago $450 bil a week ago and now it's $650 bil today
    with this rate 1 trln in a week
    2 trln in 3 weeks
    15-20 trln in 2 months

    extrapolating what;'s happening now - in 3-4 months it might be over for the world financial system
    Chinese and Indiands will only survive
     
    Last edited: Dec 19, 2017
    #38     Dec 19, 2017
  9. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    Why, because they banned cryptos? Market cap measurements are shit by the way...
     
    #39     Dec 19, 2017
  10. kashirin

    kashirin

    yes, as they banned they will have least losses


    continuing this logic - Korea and Japan will have most losses. and then Korea will devalue significantly. not sure about Japan. shorting bitcoin directly will be more profitable than shorting Korean currency. Although currency trading allows leverage so maybe shorting currency might be interesting too

    now just lets'wait how far this goes. I seriously doubt they can reach 10 trln. but who knows
    this year they went from 10 bln to 650 bln
     
    #40     Dec 19, 2017