but we are getting to levels were lives are getting wrecked. A friend's colleague took a $300k hit and dropping, going big on ETH when he thought BTC was basing at $30k.
I'm not being calloused here but bfd, sh*t happens in the markets. Put $300K in one basket, and you should probably know the risks. Pretty simple.
Honestly, I don't know why everyone makes such a big fuss about crypto. It's just another thing you can trade. I mean for most people.
Pull up a one year chart. It went from 34K to 19K. 44%. I mean that sucks, but dozens and dozens of tech stocks dropped that much and more. Friggin' Twilio went from $400 to $80 something in the same time period. I mean even Boeing went from $250 to $136. Uber- $42 to $21.
It's the game. Welcome to it.
All that matters is percentages. Period. I don't understand this ongoing bitter war between the the crypto bulls and the rabid anti-crypto cult. Who cares? It's like you all seem to gravitate to one side or the other and then have at it. It's so enigmatic of our greater culture it would seem. Divided. Pick a side.
Now there are some, like
@johnarb here, and perhaps
@Baron and few others, that believe BTC will go to $500K or whatever in a few years. But the difference between them and most of these people that bought the hype and are now crying about it, is that they understand it, and they aren't in the game to get rich quick. John knows the risks, he's said it many times here. "It could go down, I don't care".
This is like the 3rd time I've mentioned this guy this week, but Peter Lynch wrote that he bought many stocks that dropped substantially after he bought them, but he knew their story and he understood the company. Same thing with Berkshire Hathaway and Buffet.
So are the crypto bulls right? I have no idea. If they are, than yeah, you'd be hard pressed to find a stock that trades at $19 today that will be $500 a few years from now. But other than that, this constant obsession with its moves--- like going from say $22K to $19K--- christ, who cares?! I can pull up a dozen stocks that went from $22 to $19 percentage wise in the last two weeks. If the market bounces, they'll go right back up to $22. Why don't
they make the front page of every financial media outlet in the world? And yes, I already know the answer to that: because BTC and the other cryptos are an alleged world changing monetary "concept", for lack of a better word. But so are self-driving electric cars, and AI, and robotics, and CRISPR, and a dozen other things.
Technology has put us on the brink of many world-changing "concepts". The blockchain and cryptos are just a few of the many. Elon is going to Mars, Moderna made a vax in 9 months. Cars are driving themselves. Whatever.
So from where I sit, the only difference between BTC and any other stock is that it has 3 zeros at the end of its price, a great many people think it can go much higher, and just as many people think it's worthless. Might as well be TSLA or GME.
In the end, it all comes down to the percentages.
Making money, using money.
Why waste time arguing over the vehicle used?