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Max Keiser, host of his financial program Keiser Report stated that Bitcoin has the potential to have a major role in the modern global financial world due to its fundamental value.

On New Year’s Day with Keiser Report, it was pointed out that Germany is currently working on an alternative to the current system Swift, which is the global financial payment network based out of Belgium, but was said that United States is the leader in the network.


“A replacement to that [SWIFT] begins the end of the US Dollar hegemony. Bitcoin also emerged in 2009, and that is starting to take over and get bigger despite de price crash… The prices are down … But in terms of where Bitcoin is going, you and I have been involved with this space since 2011, we’ve seen it crash 94% in 2011, and it crashed something like 88 to 91% in 2013, 2014, 2015… So we’ve seen a few of these crashes, but what I do know from experience … In the past, during these previous crashes, a lot of building took place during that time, robust companies were built. They were no longer distracted, engineers are not distracted by price increases of 10, 20 or 30% a week”

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A permabull's observation shouldn't be taken as the truth or something that's gonna happen, though the talks about bitcoin being a hybrid reserve currency has been around since 2015 yet no country has ever dared touched it yet. Keiser may have been right a couple of times, but this one is too far fetched for the current times as there are only a handful of countries with a definite legal framework for bitcoin. Also, we are still in the phase wherein bitcoin exhibits spikes of volatility every now and then, so it might take a loooong while before we migrate into a new system in the future.

Max is a stock market doom preacher. If his preaching comes true and there is a total meltdown there's a high chance Bitcoin will become the safe haven for hedge funds and burned stock traders. But what if it doesn't happen and stocks don't dive? Bitcoin is still very cheap but if it became a reserve currency we wouldn't be talking about going over 20 but 200 thousand or more.

i definitely agree with him on this point. bubbles are extremely distracting---people start focusing more and more on price and less on technological use cases and the ecosystem. it's during the bear markets that companies and infrastructure quietly get built and bitcoin's utility improves.

however, i'm skeptical of the "world reserve currency" narrative. i'm not saying it's impossible, but we'd really need to see a complete breakdown of fiat currency systems at a time when bitcoin was ready and tested as a robust alternative to the current system.

Trouble is many of those carefully built companies die during the withering of the next bubble. If I were a VC I'd plan accordingly. Not many seem to.

It's possible BTC might end up considered a reserve currency by real people rather than governments. There doesn't have to be one and one only.

what most people (even bitcoiners) don't know is that bitcoin is an "alternative currency" and it has never been a "replacement currency". you never hear Satoshi say bitcoin is set out to replace the old payment systems. the problems are pointed out and bitcoin is proposed as the alternative way that solves many of those problems.

While I do not see prospects, that Bitcoin could become a global reserve currency. For citizens it is still possible, but for states, government agencies and even business structures, this is unlikely. Bitcoin has already technically lagged behind other cryptocurrencies, and in addition, it has a high price volatility, which negates all its other advantages. In any case, Bitcoin needs to be improved; without this, I do not see its considerable success.

This may be true, but if it is still a building block to price increase, then it still leads to the same goal. As long as bitcoin has a speculative value, it would take precedence over the utility and product development. All investors are financially motivated, only a few are also concerned with the product.

I personally always take Max Keiser's opinions very lightly. While I agree on some of his statements, and I think that bitcoin being the world's reserve currency is technically possible(unlikely, but still possible, but definitely not anytime soon, or not even in our lifetime), he tends to be overly optimistic and sort of "shilly?" with everything he talks about, that it actually makes me increasingly skeptical of him.

I no longer trust any opinion from anyone about cryptocurrencies price. I'd rather do my own research than trust them. But news like this can be used to know how market sentiment in general. Don't trust the opinion, use it wisely.

Max is wrong. The countries that are using SWIFT at the moment, would never shift to a payment network that are not controlled by a centralized authority. When something goes wrong, countries want to hold a centralized authority, accountable for their loss and they want full control over that payment network.

They will simply "upgrade" the old outdated SWIFT system, to be more effective and Banking groups like R3 with the help of Mike Hearn are already targeting that application with the payment network that they are developing.

it doesn't have to be always like this and it won't last long either. as price becomes more stable or even during the volatility years when the drops happen they make the pure speculators leave the market and only those who care about the "product" remain back.
besides it doesn't have to ONLY be one or the other. it can be both. for example you may want the financial sovereignty that bitcoin and its decentralization offer you but at the same time you want the profit that it gives you too because you are still living in a world that fiat is dominant.

Isn't it the problem we encounter in the cryptocurrencies community. They are all honest intention is to get rich quick instead of utilizing the technology, and getting out from the banking matrix. The volatility the markets have given are outstanding that make they all blinded by it, and by the time the market goes downside chaos happened.

I definitely agree with him, but it will take long.

I agree with your point that researching on our own is the best thing but sometimes we have to follow the experts as well, they don't give predictions blindly. similarly predictions are not always be true its just a alert message.

We all know cryptocurrencies have a greate potential and BTC is superior but beeing a reserve currency means a lot and it is not the time to say such things. For now, that's a speculation which badly effects the trust to cryptocurrencies. I think, people who trust, support or invest cryptocurrencies shouldn't focus on such long term targets.

I don't know personally who is max keiser talking about bitcoin future
But it's a good news for us their some people saying the positive future of bitcoin as currency

I completely agree with him and also consider that Bitcoin has a very bright future and he will find his place in the world economy

yes i also hope so. and Bitcoin has still huge potenzial.
And we need currently such great news out there its just one under massive flame news.

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The opinion of permabulls like Keiser, Mcafee and Tim Draper means just as much as the opinion of permabears like Schiff - 0.

I agree with the point of the centralised authority. I cannot see any country
using a decentralised currency as their reserve.
Surely they would want control over their finances, so every country will
have their own centralised crypto.

I do not believe in all these predictions and at the moment I finally stopped believing in Bitcoin and I think that it will never grow in price again

I agree with Max Keizer. Bitcoin will become the world's reserve currency and the dollar will lose liquidity in many countries. The beginning of the legality of cryptocurrency will be laid in India

I think need a long time for bitcoin become world reserve currency. US dollar position right now very strong because used for world transaction in commodity. But with currency world economic situation, anything possible happen

I think that in the near future, Bitcoin will not become a reserve currency. I think that Bitcoin is not yet so popular among the population of the planet. I think that this will take a lot of time.

I highly doubt it will ever happen. I don't know what fundamental value of bitcoin he is talking about but the network is simply not capable enough to handle global volume.

Even if we are able to scale up the current network, due to its non-regulated character, it will never be accepted by the world leader, no matter how technically strong bitcoin becomes after scaling up.

I would recommend not to take his words as absolute truth, instead look at it as another speculation. Don't bank on it!

All these articles and statements are nothing more than mere guesses and reasoning. After all, no one can know exactly what will happen to bitcoin in the future. So you don't have to believe everything others say. Anything can happen.

What world do you live in? Look at the US, British, European and Chinese economies and everyone in these countries knows we're about to get rekt.

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When the Western Countries and Asia are trying to figure out a plan for "restoring value" imagine how Russia, Turkey, Iran, Africa, South American and Indian currency holders feel holding these paper currencies.

US stocks have been overvalued, as well as the USD for a long time now. They just print too much money.

Britain needs to leave the EU. The Euro is already a terrible currency, when Britain leaves both currencies suffer. Then Asia with their tariff war and large amounts of other countries debt wants their currency to be the global reserve....that's not going to go well...

The housing market will probably take a dive, look how much of a bubble it's been the last 5 years everywhere.

Buy Gold or buy Bitcoin.... National currencies and their "assets" are all extremely inflated.

max kaiser needs an update bitcoin and its index are losing support rapidly.

To be honest, I do not believe it. Bitcoin is too volatile a currency for such purposes. It will be a few more years before this to become a reality.
Bitcoin has fundamental differences and advantages over ordinary money. But this (for now) is not enough to become a reserve world currency.

In my opinion every people and every country in this world have their wishes and dreams about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a currency so good that from its beginning (in 2008) its price has grown from 0.1 cents/Bitcoin to approx 20 000 dollars/Bitcoin in December 2018. That is a 2 million (2 000 000) times (x) price growth in 10 years.

  This demonstrates that Bitcoin as a currency, has been adopted by many, many, people in this world, and that it does what it says, bringing prosperity, economic growth and peace to every person in this world.

  Germany is one of the wisest countries in this world, a country with renowned scientists (Mathematicians, Physicists, Doctors), and hard working people, and if a renowned German financial analyst says that "Bitcoin Will Become the World’s Reserve Currency", then you can be certain that this is happening now. Bitcoin is becoming the World's Reserve Currency, because it has been demonstrated in its 10 years of existnce that it is better than Gold, that it is better than Oil, etc, for storing value.

this will happen, eventually, but it will take a while, at-least a few decades.

Max Keiser has questionable motives towards Bitcoin


Keiser Report was engaged in alot of soft support for the 2X fork and it's proponents, and very little presentation of the other side of the story.

When the 2X fork failed, Max suspiciously shut his mouth, and tried to act like it never happened

The dream of bitcoin becoming the most world reserve currency is attanaible. We just need a few years to makw it happen. Actually, there are signs like last year's price and the continous improvement of the network and its still competitive in the market though new technologies still coming up.