Lol. What value? You can't buy anything with it until you exchange for real currency. And being as volatile as it is, makes for a pretty lousy store of value. You're probably referring to speculators holding for long periods of time. Guarantee they'll never use it at the gas pump or grocery...
I was traveling in Europe when Covid went from a "China problem" to a problem that was obviously going to affect the entire globe. That is the point where nearly every financial instrument went wildly in one direction or the other. When they introduced lockdowns. Why is this obvious fact so hard...
A disproportionately large percentage of Bitcoin is used in illegal transactions compared to normal currencies. This is fact, not opinion.
The rise of Bitcoin correlated with the rise of the anonymous Dark Web. People only started speculating after that.
That's why any time I've read a story about kidnapping, extortion, etc. in the past couple years, they've always demanded Bitcoin.
That's why Bitcoin was practically worthless until The Silk Road on darkweb popularized it.
Without Silk Road, there would have been to Bitcoin bubble in 2017.
I wasn't aware there was anything called a "professional" when it comes to trading. I thought it was people who just stuck with it until they got good. It's not like there are official degrees and certificates you can earn. (From anyone who isn't a scam artist).
From a once-per-century "black swan event," that no one could have predicted and, at it's core, had nothing to do with economics.
Stock market dips like that happen maybe once every decade... But they usually have an economic cause. This did not.
I did that in demo account a few months ago. I'm not willing to put enough funds in my live account to use a strategy like that. It worked in demo because I had $10,000,000 fake dollars to fall back on. I only put $10,000 in my live account.
one thing I can see going wrong in my live account is...