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Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day

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Your self-admitted lack of understanding is not evidence there's no value in Bitcoin.

please, feel free to educate me. what's the value of bitcoin, other than the tautological argument around preserving its value?

"Bitcoin is the first and best, and will be the one world store of value in the end. Everything else is shitcoins." - any Bitcoin maximalist

Re: Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day

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> then hit 100k. Rinse and repeat that's purely speculation - it might or might not. It depends on the chaotic forces of the market participants, because there's no underlying intrinsic value for crypto.

> To be clear, I own some cryptos, but treat it purely as the speculative gamble that it is.

They're pointing out the hypocrisy of your speculation as you're speculating about speculative market trends as past trends can very well not be predictive.

Re: Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day

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post #30
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everyone in the world lives in an economy that has 4% YoY inflation. And not everyone has access to financial services or a developed banking sector

But almost everyone with Bitcoin live in low-inflation developed countries.

That’s incorrect. If I’m remembering correctly Nigeria was the second largest Bitcoin market pretty recently.

Re: Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day

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other than trying to get the money of suckers, I've never understood the point of bitcoin. no currency, digital or not, can be removed from the world's activities. why would you ever want something that could plunge 30% in a day? even if it went up 5 billion percent, then what? everyone sells and it goes down? what's the point? it's like the most zero-sum activity imaginable. edit: I'm sincerely wondering what the va…

Don't buy bitcoin, it always crashes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg

We'll be back here in four years when bitcoin is well above 100k being used happily as a store of value by millions of people and someone like you will say the exact same thing again. How long will it take you to realise that it's already a success?

Re: Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day

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other than trying to get the money of suckers, I've never understood the point of bitcoin. no currency, digital or not, can be removed from the world's activities. why would you ever want something that could plunge 30% in a day? even if it went up 5 billion percent, then what? everyone sells and it goes down? what's the point? it's like the most zero-sum activity imaginable. edit: I'm sincerely wondering what the va…

I've used it to pay for things more than a handful of times. Just cause you don't have a reason doesn't mean the tech should be immediately dismissed.

Re: Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day

#47

other than trying to get the money of suckers, I've never understood the point of bitcoin. no currency, digital or not, can be removed from the world's activities. why would you ever want something that could plunge 30% in a day? even if it went up 5 billion percent, then what? everyone sells and it goes down? what's the point? it's like the most zero-sum activity imaginable. edit: I'm sincerely wondering what the va…

If it were actually used as a medium of exchange, it would likely be more stable and it would provide value by facilitating trade. That was basically the original intention behind the design. Unfortunately most people are buying it to hoard and sell later, not to use as a payment mechanism, in part because it hasn't scaled to a higher transaction rate, causing large transaction fees whenever anyone attempts to use it.

Re: Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day

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other than trying to get the money of suckers, I've never understood the point of bitcoin. no currency, digital or not, can be removed from the world's activities. why would you ever want something that could plunge 30% in a day? even if it went up 5 billion percent, then what? everyone sells and it goes down? what's the point? it's like the most zero-sum activity imaginable. edit: I'm sincerely wondering what the va…

It is an expensive way to send money around without involving PayPal or a bank etc. If you're buying something illegal or forbidden by them it would be handy for that.

That's about it.

Re: Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day

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post #44

other than trying to get the money of suckers, I've never understood the point of bitcoin. no currency, digital or not, can be removed from the world's activities. why would you ever want something that could plunge 30% in a day? even if it went up 5 billion percent, then what? everyone sells and it goes down? what's the point? it's like the most zero-sum activity imaginable. edit: I'm sincerely wondering what the va…

Don't buy bitcoin, it always crashes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg We'll be back here in four years when bitcoin is well above 100k being used happily as a store of value by millions of people and someone like you will say the exact same thing again. How long will it take you to realise that it's already a success?

let's just skip to the end.

at $DAY $COIN is at $MAX_PRICE. it never reaches $MAX_PRICE ever again. for someone who bought at $MAX_PRICE, what is the value they received?

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