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Show HN: The Coinbase FOMO Calculator
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There's no warning of this, but if you look at the start date of the chart you'll notice it may be much later than the date you thought you had picked
edit: With that bug, choosing a period of 1 week is the way to get the longest possible time range for the chart, about 7 years
One observation: The volatility is terrifying, but the multimillion dollar gains are interesting
Ive heard conflicting viewpoints on the current crypto crash. Some say that this is different than the rest, and that crypto has already reached it’s all time max, whereas others say that this is just another pullback before an even larger bull run. With crypto, it is so hard to know what it’s actual value should be, since unlike a stock there are no earnings and thus you can’t look at the P/E ratio to determine its…
You could have made trillions of dollars with ANY asset in ANY time period if you time it right, so this is not special or unique
There SOME assets which are not worth trillions, so no.
> in ANY time period
There are SOME time periods which any given assets decline in value. Over an infinite time scale, the survival rate of everything is zero. But of course you're speaking about selecting the optimal interval in that time scale.
The problem is we are not immortals, infinite time scales is irrelevant. Many are born too late to be Warren Buffet.
One could argue that a log scale should be the default for any graph showing a price over time, though it would confuse people who don't know what a log is. In this case it might make it easier to compare what happened around 2018 with what happened around 2020-2021.