Crypto Market Reaches $2 Trillion in Value, XRP on the Rise

What do you envision. For crypto to take over the world and governments having no control of their currency? They might as well also give up control of their borders. I don't like the FED as much as the next guy based on what they are doing to the US dollar. But if a global currency takes over, and the government just stands by and lets it happen, I don't think many will be better off. It might not happen this year of next, but the bigger that crypto gets, the more important it will be for the government to do something about it. I believe its just a matter of time until a new crypto sanctioned by the government comes around, and all others will be outlawed. You might be able to go spend your BTC in Venezuela or North Korea of course.

Indeed. The US is going to roll out a USA digital currency much more quickly now. And I'm not judging it until I know more about it. But, right now I just choose to use Bitcoin as my digital currency. That could easily change when US rolls out their own digital currency.
 
*** Personal opinions below based on things I've read and videos I've seen

US $ is a scam. In cryptos, we call it a shitcoin to steal value from the suckers who hodl it. It is designed to be debased and boy, did they do a great job in the past year by printing trillions of it

US publicly listed companies know about the $ scam and they use the near 0 interest rate to issue debts. Money is cheap

The rich know there's a serious problem with all this printing of money. Paul Tudor Jones talked about it last year when he invested in bitcoin (futures)

The rich and powerful kept pressuring their contacts at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley they want to buy bitcoin as an inflation hedge but these guys are slow and when they finally do, they put restrictions, like 5% allocation or $2M and $25M account minimums

Shit, the normal people like us have been able to buy bitcoins for many years and we don't need no fucking permission or restrictions. We're able to front run the rich guys and buy bitcoin

If you're scared to hodl bitcoin and prefer $, you're the one that's going to need the luck. That $ is a shitcoin. It's a scam to devalue your hard work and they will continue to print more of it

I don't own a single stock or bond. Aside from $ in the bank for 1.5 years of living expenses and paid off car, all our net worth are in bitcoins and cryptos

Viacom and Discovery shareholders did not think a severe price correction can happen in a short time

In this bitcoin bull market, I don't worry about a 50% crash because it's not going to happen. Bitcoin will hit $100K, but it's not stopping there

The risky asset to hodl is US $, not bitcoin
 
I see you guys believe the US $ is worthless, but it still holds its own against other major currencies. You switched to Bitcoin but it is far less stable than the USD. Certainly the expectation is that BTC will rise in value so I can understand the speculative investment, but as a replacement for the USD... why? Serious question.
 
yea what you are saying is true. And I follow you. Not disagreeing. But my view point comes from the notion that the USD is worthless. Its not backed by ANYTHING. And the historical trust it did have has been diluted beyond all scope of reasoning. So I don't mind switching to an alternative currency. I no longer hold any USD. My cash basis is all in bitcoin and I spend it using a debit card from paypal using bitcoin as the funds source. However, all of my other standard investments and trades haven't changed. I have not replaced any stock or bond or any instrument with bitcoin as an investment. However I do trade it.

I was, for a long time trying to switch to just using Swiss Francs (swiss banking for Americans is crazy complex and almost illegal). But I like the bitcoin concept being a programmer. My faith in the integrity of the USD has been gone for a while. Elon stepped up and took a leadership role in the integrity of bitcoin and that did the job for me. I respect Elon far more than any Fed official or any treasury official. And I don't even know why the Fed has the absolute power to manage US currency in the first place because they certainly are not a federal institution. But, they did what they did and their record now stands as a lesson to learn from and mistakes never to be made again for future generations.. and now I'm out as far as USD goes. I think many high-tech and biotech companies will eventually follow Elon and transact fully in bitcoin. And I believe that the USD will come crashing down long before bitcoin. The hacking problem was related to exchanges and nobody leaves their crypto on the exchanges any longer. But again. This is all a foreign concept to most older investors. So I am probably spitting in the wind here.

I follow it competently, and time will tell if you are right or not. I said few times that I made a mistake, waiting for serious pullback otherwise not chasing.
 
Indeed. The US is going to roll out a USA digital currency much more quickly now. And I'm not judging it until I know more about it. But, right now I just choose to use Bitcoin as my digital currency. That could easily change when US rolls out their own digital currency.
Are there any concrete plans about doing that?
 
Certainly the expectation is that BTC will rise in value so I can understand the speculative investment, but as a replacement for the USD... why? Serious question.

Personally, I'm not replacing the method of payment functionality of the USD with bitcoin, but only the store of value functionality of the USD

Michael Saylor has talked about this on many youtube videos. He did not want to lose the purchasing power of Microstrategy year after year and he decided on bitcoin as a hedge. He looked at stocks, gold, bonds, and other fiat currencies, first

His explanation is much better than mine, search on youtube or let me know if you cannot find it and I'll post it here
 
what is happening in crypto is unbelievable if you choose to look into it. it is not as easy to see in the US because of regulations. crypto has some serious momentum behind it now and is past the point of going away completely. not saying there couldn't be huge setbacks. but every day that passes the likelihood of setbacks gets less and less as it becomes more integrated into global economics and things like outright banning would cause systemic problems our overlords prefer to avoid.
 
I was waiting for the XRP to rise for a long time already. Many people said that it's a waste of time to invest in XRP, but as I see this year, it will rise to at least $2. Hope that by 2025 it will reach $10, and maybe even more. I have seen analytical statistics where it was written that it can rise to $114 by 2028. I don't think it will rise so high, but I will believe in it. You can also check those statistics on https://uphold.com/en/assets/crypto/buy-xrp.
 
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