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Bitcoin exchange rate reached $100 USD per BTC

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Re: Bitcoin exchange rate reached $100 USD per BTC

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Is it possible to sell short, or buy put options? I think bitcoin has potential long-term but this seems like a ridiculous speculation-fueled bubble.

Yeah, it's apparently possible to short bitcoins. If the recent rise in price is a bubble, and it crashes back to about $30, it will still come back to about $100 in a year, if bitcoin adoption continues.

Re: Bitcoin exchange rate reached $100 USD per BTC

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That's insane. Only a few months ago 1BTC was going for about $30 USD. There were threads discussing $30/BTC where people were saying that it was too late to get on the wagon...

When I mined my first block of bitcoins a couple years ago (back when I could use the GPU on my aging laptop and still have a chance to mine a block) they were worth about 5¢; I sold a bunch when they were around $5 because I thought that was ridiculously high, and the price was sure to collapse. Silly me; had I not sold them, I could have a few thousand dollars from a couple of days worth of GPU time.

Re: Bitcoin exchange rate reached $100 USD per BTC

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post #8

That's insane. Only a few months ago 1BTC was going for about $30 USD. There were threads discussing $30/BTC where people were saying that it was too late to get on the wagon...

If bitcoin ever gets widely adopted, one bitcoin will be worth atleast thousands of dollars.

Re: Bitcoin exchange rate reached $100 USD per BTC

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post #21
post #20

Is it possible to sell short, or buy put options? I think bitcoin has potential long-term but this seems like a ridiculous speculation-fueled bubble.

Yeah, it's apparently possible to short bitcoins. If the recent rise in price is a bubble, and it crashes back to about $30, it will still come back to about $100 in a year, if bitcoin adoption continues.

Has there been adoption for essential goods & services? All I've seen so far are Internet services.

Re: Bitcoin exchange rate reached $100 USD per BTC

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post #21
post #20

Is it possible to sell short, or buy put options? I think bitcoin has potential long-term but this seems like a ridiculous speculation-fueled bubble.

Yeah, it's apparently possible to short bitcoins. If the recent rise in price is a bubble, and it crashes back to about $30, it will still come back to about $100 in a year, if bitcoin adoption continues.

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Re: Bitcoin exchange rate reached $100 USD per BTC

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This feels kinda like a pump and dump to me. I don't mind articles/projects/sites that make use of bitcoins. But the frequency of posts on how much each bitcoin is worth feels like pennystocks/etc on an investing forum. People trying to get more people to buy in. To drive it up. So they can get out while it's high.

The whole "Cyprus people are getting into Bitcoin" narrative is a total lie as well. But I guess Bitcoin is a great learning opportunity for spotting Scams etc., as long as people don't lose too much money, it might even be beneficial.

So you can objectively tell that "bitcoin is a scam"? Sure, there might be bubbles, but that doesn't mean bitcoin is a scam.

Re: Bitcoin exchange rate reached $100 USD per BTC

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I worry that as Bitcoin's value rises, people are buying in not to use it as payment for services or goods, but simply as an investment vehicle. In principle, there's nothing wrong with this; currency trading is common and well-explored. The problem is that the value of a currency is supposed to also be somehow related to its utility in acquiring goods and services. When it is rarely used to that effect, people may reconsider their investment in the currency.

It'd also be interesting to look at the effects of deflation in the fledgling bitcoin economy, although the actual exchange of currency for goods and services is a bit small to judge this effectively.

Re: Bitcoin exchange rate reached $100 USD per BTC

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless these people have invested extra money they can afford to lose for the reasons to save them from inflation and confiscation. Then they still have enough cash to pay the bills, so why should they get back to fiat? E.g. I myself and many of people I know are not going to sell a single Bitcoin unless any sort of personal or global disaster. And many of them are going to spend their BTC over time to avoid interact…

You could end in gold or silver or some other precious metal as well. The ultimate endpoint need not be USD.

Precious metals are not easy: either you store it somewhere where people ask questions and can block your access to it, or you store it in your pocket and cannot easily spend portion of it when you need.

Re: Bitcoin exchange rate reached $100 USD per BTC

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it's apparently possible to short bitcoins. If the recent rise in price is a bubble, and it crashes back to about $30, it will still come back to about $100 in a year, if bitcoin adoption continues.

Has there been adoption for essential goods & services? All I've seen so far are Internet services.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Material_.2F_Physical_Produ...
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