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December 18, 2017, 04:21:47 AM |
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Novogratz said there will be a sell-off at some point, but that we are very far from it.
So, thats what bitcoin is, just a speculative asset to increase fiat money. Digital currency? Just a dream.
I'm day-dreaming when I think bitcoin would just replace fiat currency one day, and governments would bow down to it, with central banks losing their power over peoples money. Its just a dream. People are in for profits, and only that. When we reach 2013 bubble levels, then there will be this massive sell-off, and we will be back to fiat, to taxes, to government control. Thats it.
nah, plenty of us old school ideological hodlers here inflationary fiat fedbux or an actual store of value, humanity has finally been given the choice, Gresham's law will dictate the outcome
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December 18, 2017, 04:23:13 AM |
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blah blah blah blah blah
^^^ This person dedicates literally hours a day, hundreds of hours a month and thousands of hours a year discussing a topic that he despises. Now, I ask you, what kind of a person would do this and what kind of a life outside of this forum might such a person have? Now, if this is the type of life or person you would like to be, then you should listen to everything he says. Because, we become who we listen to. I find his posts less annoying than some other member's. Besides, they're easy to skip on sight. Of course that is why I have him on ignore.
I like to be reminded about the less lucky sometimes. It keeps my pride in check.
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December 18, 2017, 04:27:34 AM |
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I dunno man, those seem like some pretty good lines. What is that? 8 point brush in maroon with radiused ends? Nice.
MOON!
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jojo69
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December 18, 2017, 04:31:37 AM |
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that's no moon
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HairyMaclairy
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December 18, 2017, 04:38:46 AM |
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I’m not sure I want to go back up to 19,000. I don’t think I can handle the responsibility. I’m feeling pretty comfortable here.
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December 18, 2017, 04:48:37 AM |
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Mining has eventual low, uniform profit per unit of (hardware $ + energy $). Both hardware and energy markets are seriously skewed, that's what allows monopolies. No, there's absolutely no reason this paradigm will ever change because technology that exists is just a reflection of asymmetric intelligence distribution of humans, further compounded by the huge overhead to build said devices which limits participation to a handful of individuals on the planet. You're basically pretending a bunch of peons can crowd source a bitcoin miner better than intel can build, or that commodification of ASICs is inevitable when it's obviously not. There is no incentive to sell a money printing machine for less or equal money than it would make you unless the goal is simply to put on a ruse and pretend a few other people mine bitcoin besides yourself so you can claim it's decentralized (when it's really not). But those other people will still be making less money than you since they have to buy your miner, allowing you to retain slumlord monopoly. That doesn't even get into the fact that they might value power over the system rather than money and refuse to sell even at a profit. Let's also not forget that in adversarial mining you can automatically eliminate your rivals simply by having larger hash power. Bitcoin is DESIGNED to centralize in about 1000 different ways, period. Instead of "commodification" of ASIC, the next step will be someone like IBM or Intel making graphene transistors and tipping bitcoin from 99% to 100% centralized.
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December 18, 2017, 05:38:35 AM |
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I’m not sure I want to go back up to 19,000. I don’t think I can handle the responsibility. I’m feeling pretty comfortable here.
Honey badger taking a nap?
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December 18, 2017, 05:59:06 AM |
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Fun fact - all of these same conversations have happened at 4 digit price levels, and before that they happened at 3 digit price levels, and before that they happened at 2 digit price levels, and 1 digit levels. The same comments, the same debates, and even many of the same people.
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December 18, 2017, 06:00:43 AM |
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I hear a good portion of people literally saying that btc is never going to dip or crash again because everything has changed or now it's being stabilized by the big money or whatever which is bs, or they are just new and not aware of the crashes.
Of course you can always find anecdotal evidence of any fucking point that you want to make, but anecdotal is not representative and it does not even mean that much, even if you can find 20% of morons saying some kind of nonsense. You constantly repeating these bitcoin is going to crash themes as if the outrageous aspects of public sentiment are any kind of meaningful indication regarding the extent to which BTC might be in a bubble, or not.... just ridiculous, your ongoing trolling on the same chicken little sky is falling baloney.
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December 18, 2017, 06:03:15 AM |
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Well it's not like I just come on here to declare there is going to be a crash. I am usually disagreeing with someone and addressing them when I hear them say something ridiculous.
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December 18, 2017, 06:12:59 AM |
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... For example, if you can just put a miner on cruise control and collect payments from it while not actually doing any type of work yourself, this works out to be roughly the same thing as collecting interest and we all know how compound interest spirals out of control. So you can then parlay all your interest into continuous expansion until complete monopoly (which is what many of these miners have done). To prevent this compound interest effect, you would need to do something like require miners to do physical labor (solve captchas) for the block reward so they can't continuously expand.
The problem you encounter here is that...you can create bots to solve the captchas for you, and you're right back to square one again and have fixed nothing. The system always turns into slum lords collecting money for nothing through a monopoly. That sounds like a business, you know, in the real world. That's how they operate, but of course I have a factory, I hire employees, they work for me. I hire managers and supervisors to handle a bunch of employees. The thing is almost on autopilot or cruise control. Because if you have to micromanage something to make profits, that's not a business. Incidentally, I read all your posts on steemit, or at least the ones you posted in your reply to me. I don't agree with about half or more of them, but hey, they were an interesting read. I think I've read some of them before too. I say bitcoin is going to a few trillion dollars. You can call me a pumper for saying that.
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HairyMaclairy
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December 18, 2017, 06:14:24 AM |
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Fun fact - all of these same conversations have happened at 4 digit price levels, and before that they happened at 3 digit price levels, and before that they happened at 2 digit price levels, and 1 digit levels. The same comments, the same debates, and even many of the same people.
And the price keeps going up all the same....
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JayJuanGee
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December 18, 2017, 06:17:00 AM |
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Fun fact - all of these same conversations have happened at 4 digit price levels, and before that they happened at 3 digit price levels, and before that they happened at 2 digit price levels, and 1 digit levels. The same comments, the same debates, and even many of the same people.
you are really devolving into fantastical thinking that is probably has less than a .5% chance of happening, even though you are presenting such scenario as if it has some kind of meaningful odds... wishful thinking and perhaps some desperation, too.
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TERA2
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December 18, 2017, 06:18:10 AM |
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Fun fact - all of these same conversations have happened at 4 digit price levels, and before that they happened at 3 digit price levels, and before that they happened at 2 digit price levels, and 1 digit levels. The same comments, the same debates, and even many of the same people.
you are really devolving into fantastical thinking that is probably has less than a .5% chance of happening, even though you are presenting such scenario as if it has some kind of meaningful odds... wishful thinking and perhaps some desperation, too. I am totally lost here on both of your responses to my completely neutral or even positive comment where I am simply making an observation of the past. It was not meant to be connected to any other discussion I was having. What is this scenario I am presenting... odds of what? Did you guys sleep yet?
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JayJuanGee
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December 18, 2017, 06:18:26 AM |
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Well it's not like I just come on here to declare there is going to be a crash. I am usually disagreeing with someone and addressing them when I hear them say something ridiculous.
Maybe you should try addressing yourself, because you say quite a lot of ridiculous stuff.
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JayJuanGee
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December 18, 2017, 06:21:51 AM |
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Fun fact - all of these same conversations have happened at 4 digit price levels, and before that they happened at 3 digit price levels, and before that they happened at 2 digit price levels, and 1 digit levels. The same comments, the same debates, and even many of the same people.
you are really devolving into fantastical thinking that is probably has less than a .5% chance of happening, even though you are presenting such scenario as if it has some kind of meaningful odds... wishful thinking and perhaps some desperation, too. I am totally lost here on both of your responses to my completely neutral or even positive comment where I am simply making an observation of the past. It was not meant to be connected to any other discussion I was having. What is this scenario I am presenting... odds of what? O.k. I read you a bit wrong on that, yet still, there may be a lot of similar conversations, but there has been a lot of development and a lot of changed dynamics, too, including a lot of the effect of the ICO craze and alts ... and just the amount of capital that is flowing into the space that involves traditional financial circles, rather than niche technical and computer geeks.
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realr0ach
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December 18, 2017, 06:31:13 AM |
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Fun fact - all of these same conversations have happened at 4 digit price levels, and before that they happened at 3 digit price levels, and before that they happened at 2 digit price levels, and 1 digit levels. The same comments, the same debates, and even many of the same people.
They really haven't because most of the people on these forums and current bitcoin developers seem to claim commodification of ASICs is inevitable when I just demonstrated why there is no incentive for that to ever happen. For bitcoin to have any type of fundamentals whatsoever, people are relying on assumptions that have no basis in reality in other words.
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December 18, 2017, 06:34:53 AM |
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Today could/ should be historic, with Wall Street finally giving in to BTC fever. Lots of people took profits at ATH near USD $20K (and caused a dip ) that might regret not waiting until this week! USD $25K anyone? Like waiting for Santa Claus. When I wake up tomorrow I want to see $21K +++++
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December 18, 2017, 06:40:49 AM |
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That’s a great question. Is the Bitcoin price correlated to the date in December??!
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December 18, 2017, 06:44:35 AM |
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Riiiiiiight. After watching him struggle for 7 years.... Never thought of just giving some of his own stash? But now takes credit. Whatever.
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