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Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000

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Re: Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000

#11

It could also go back to $100. Bitcoin has no mainstream use right now. It's too expensive to transact in terms of money and time, it's too volatile to be a store of value, it's too technical to be used casually, it's too fragile since it gets hacked every which way, and it's too easily copied to be rare.

Bitcoin never got hacked, unsecure middlemen did (or pretended to have been)

Re: Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000

#12

It could also go back to $100. Bitcoin has no mainstream use right now. It's too expensive to transact in terms of money and time, it's too volatile to be a store of value, it's too technical to be used casually, it's too fragile since it gets hacked every which way, and it's too easily copied to be rare.

>Being hacked every which way

Do you want to clarify this? If you meant what I think you meant, you're incorrect.

Re: Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000

#13
post #7

For comparison, he also thinks it's going to $40K by EOY 2018. http://www.businessinsider.com/novogratz-bitcoin-could-be-at...

And he also says "It is going to become the biggest bubble of our lifetime" in the video embedded with the bloomberg article.

Re: Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000

#15

It could also go back to $100. Bitcoin has no mainstream use right now. It's too expensive to transact in terms of money and time, it's too volatile to be a store of value, it's too technical to be used casually, it's too fragile since it gets hacked every which way, and it's too easily copied to be rare.

you lost me at "hacked." do you understand proof-of-work?

and if you think Bitcoin can simply be duplicated through a hard fork, you are even more misinformed than I had imagined.

Re: Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000

#16
Yeah, this seems like weird erratic behavior. I mean if you are raising a big fund for bitcoin and you think it's going to drop, that's good for yoi because you can buy it cheaper. And if you are not a bitcoin bull, why raise a fund in the first place? Something is up with this guy

Re: Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000

#17

It could also go back to $100. Bitcoin has no mainstream use right now. It's too expensive to transact in terms of money and time, it's too volatile to be a store of value, it's too technical to be used casually, it's too fragile since it gets hacked every which way, and it's too easily copied to be rare.

>Being hacked every which way Do you want to clarify this? If you meant what I think you meant, you're incorrect.

Not the ledger, the exchanges. And then it's impossible to recover the money because the account it's gone to is anonymous.

Re: Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000

#18

It could also go back to $100. Bitcoin has no mainstream use right now. It's too expensive to transact in terms of money and time, it's too volatile to be a store of value, it's too technical to be used casually, it's too fragile since it gets hacked every which way, and it's too easily copied to be rare.

>Being hacked every which way Do you want to clarify this? If you meant what I think you meant, you're incorrect.

I assume he meant people have had their coins stolen, usually from exchanges, really not much different than your bank getting robbed, although in this cause your money is gone and the exchange doesn't cover the theft.

Re: Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000

#19
post #7

For comparison, he also thinks it's going to $40K by EOY 2018. http://www.businessinsider.com/novogratz-bitcoin-could-be-at...

And he also says "It is going to become the biggest bubble of our lifetime" in the video embedded with the bloomberg article.

Truly a Janus!

Re: Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000

#20
post #7

For comparison, he also thinks it's going to $40K by EOY 2018. http://www.businessinsider.com/novogratz-bitcoin-could-be-at...

And he also says "It is going to become the biggest bubble of our lifetime" in the video embedded with the bloomberg article.

Well, if you predict every possible outcome, you will be right at least once.
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