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  1. johnarb

    Bitcoin Is Better Than Gold For One Simple Reason

    You'll need more than a "few" or "some", and you'll have to crash all planes, trains and automobiles in the process, not to mention halt all bank/retail/stock markets that rely on computer systems, but hey, as long as you get your way and reset bitcoin, more power to you...
  2. johnarb

    Bitcoin Is Better Than Gold For One Simple Reason

    CNBC on bitcoin vs gold
  3. johnarb

    Bitcoin Is Better Than Gold For One Simple Reason

    Bitcoin is the gateway to the real-world for all other cryptocurrencies. If bitcoin fails, so does all other coins. Until another coin takes its place... All of the profits I've spent and converted to fiat have been through bitcoin and whether I like it or not, I have a double conversion on my...
  4. johnarb

    Bitcoin Is Better Than Gold For One Simple Reason

    Seriously? You're putting a hypothetical argument on how the bitcoin (btc) limit of 21 Million can be changed and I did not mention that the 21 Million limit is outside of our life times as it's non-relevant, the limit is 21 Million coins. I'm pretty sure you and I know what you're doing...
  5. johnarb

    Bitcoin Is Better Than Gold For One Simple Reason

    Something was lost somewhere.... Let's try this again. The article I posted was discussing bitcoin (symbol: btc) versus gold and many posters were responding unlimited supply of cryptocurrencies. Please stop. It's disingenuous. Bitcoin (symbol: btc) has a lifetime cap of 21 million coins minus...
  6. johnarb

    Bitcoin Is Better Than Gold For One Simple Reason

    Article is talking about bitcoin (symbol: btc), not other cryptocurrencies. It's like talking about AAPL, then mentioning there are unlimited stocks in the stock markets and they're creating more with each IPO, or there's gold, but there's unlimited metals, like silver, copper...
  7. johnarb

    A single anonymous market manipulator caused bitcoin to top $20,000 two years ago, study shows

    You will love my other thread, Pekelo :D Every year there is another 3,300 tons of gold produced–lets call it $200 billion of new gold that must be absorbed every year by buyers. Let’s look at bitcoin. Every year at, let’s say $10,000 a coin, there is $6.5 billion dollars of new supply that...
  8. johnarb

    Bitcoin Is Better Than Gold For One Simple Reason

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2019/11/04/bitcoin-is-better-than-gold-for-one-simple-reason/#41b62cf6176b Gold has always been considered a haven for capital. The obvious proof is that governments keep a reserve of gold. They do so because in war the only money the losing side can use to...
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    A single anonymous market manipulator caused bitcoin to top $20,000 two years ago, study shows

    Yea, you're right, there's a debt ceiling that prevents the Fed to get out of control. Oh, wait, er, uhm, nvm. Out of curiosity, how much USDT do you think they print every day to support or even pump it? How much USDT are in existence? Coinbase (US regulated exchange) alone btc/usd trading is...
  10. johnarb

    A single anonymous market manipulator caused bitcoin to top $20,000 two years ago, study shows

    $23 Trillion debt, but no worries. we'll just print more $
  11. johnarb

    Confessions of a Reformed Crypto Doubter

    Bitcoin doesn't vanish in the scenario you're describing. It runs on a decentralized network with over 10,000 full bitcoin nodes distributed worldwide, each one has a copy of the blockchain (public ledger) that shows the amount of bitcoin you have ownership of in a given bitcoin address (that...
  12. johnarb

    Confessions of a Reformed Crypto Doubter

    https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-03/bitcoin-and-other-cryptocurrencies-are-better-than-gold The cryptocurrency world was the subject of much derision in early 2018. It had all the signs of a bubble, complete with shady promoters, a speculative frenzy and investors with...
  13. johnarb

    Bitcoin Price Thread

    He's recommending an asset he's invested in, that's normal behavior in Wall Street. He provided a bunch of critical metrics on the bitcoin network growth. He compared the price action to Amazon's over the course of 20 years which experienced 90% "crashes". Still, everyone should do perform...
  14. johnarb

    Bitcoin Price Thread

    Buy bitcoin every chance you get, says hedge fund veteran Mark Yusko https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/26/buy-bitcoin-every-chance-you-get-says-hedge-fund-veteran-mark-yusko.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain
  15. johnarb

    What Happen to Maverick74 (moderator)

    Thank you for this thread, was wondering about Maverick74 and glad he's ok and doing well.
  16. johnarb

    New York Stock Exchange owner launches futures contracts that pay out in bitcoin

    That's what I was hinting at when I mentioned that the 1-day bitcoin futures is interesting. Who would be interested in buying these? Not the average person. "Futures contracts, legal agreements to buy or sell a commodity at a certain price and time, are a way for investors to bet on whether...
  17. johnarb

    New York Stock Exchange owner launches futures contracts that pay out in bitcoin

    Looks like bitcoin price action is following a buy on rumor, sell on news, bitcoin is down a few hundred dollars in price. 1-day futures are quite interesting if it picks up volume, hodlers hope...
  18. johnarb

    Will Blockchain Change Money and Business ? Poll

    You have a lot of questions and no offense, but I don't feel like providing the research for you. There's a thread right next to this one where you can get a lot of resources and books to read. Bitcoin is a decentralized, distributed, peer-to-peer, immutable, censorship-resistant...
  19. johnarb

    Will Blockchain Change Money and Business ? Poll

    That's one bitcoin participant's opinion. Bitcoin is decentralized and distributed globally and that view is the extreme minority, most people who invest in bitcoin view it as a digital investment asset, i.e. digital gold. Even the ones who view bitcoin as a cryptocurrency play don't see it as...
  20. johnarb

    Will Blockchain Change Money and Business ? Poll

    That is not. That makes no sense to me, actually. I don't know of anyone here who has mentioned that goal.
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