@Coin-Keeper. I am skeptical. Janet Yellen wants a crackdown on bitcoin and strictly regulate the market and its users and the banks are offering bitcoin services for their wealthy clients? I have begun telling everyone since 2 years ago that bitcoin and the cryptospace might become the elite's playground and it appears we are going closer to this while the community celebrates Elon and Saylor.
Thats food for thought all right, Bitcoin will become the playground of the elite
while we do indeed celebrate Elon and Michael. Eventhough Michael is in one way
good for Bitcoin he is inviting the elite who are able to hoover up many many Bitcoin.
Morgan Stanley will in effect help the those elite to move into the space indirectly.
This is all good from a Bitcoin price as it rises, but it pushes it further away from
the peple who need it most.
I know, I know ordinary people will still be able to buy it but just not as much.
Or they can just buy now. And could've at any time since 2009. It is all about freedom and choices. People have the freedom to make good choices in buying or not. They can think long term (e.g. buy Bitcoin and keep it for 5-10 years) or short term and go out and buy Starbucks coffee everyday and forgo $2190 of Bitcoin per year. ($6/day * 365).
I've told people about Bitcoin since mid 2010 and the thesis behind it. Most of those people chose to prioritize a new phone ($600 in 2011-2013) would've bought a lot of Bitcoin. Even at $30 in 2013, you'd have had 20 which are not worth ~$1.2 million. Or they bought Starbucks every day. Or they bought expensive wine or beer or liquor.
Everyone has the same opportunity, and it is the ant and the grasshopper repeatedly. People want to be the grasshopper short term, but then when the ant is rewarded, they complain.
Investments compounded over decades add up even outside of Bitcoin, but few people will be patient for 50 years. They want what they want now, and then pay the price later.
I understand cr1776, and I get that in general peoples priorities are not
thinking about the future but rather "keeping up appearances" and falling
for the latest tech etc. etc.
Look I knew about Bitcoin back in 2013 when ny brother first got involved
but I didnt see what it could become in the future [now] so I understand
your point and agree fully,
But not everyone knew about Bitcoin back in 2013 or even 2017. There are
newcomers to the scene, the younger generation. OK the didnt experience
the early days where you could buy 1 bitcoin for $30 but its more difficult now.
@Coin-Keeper. I am skeptical. Janet Yellen wants a crackdown on bitcoin and strictly regulate the market and its users and the banks are offering bitcoin services for their wealthy clients? I have begun telling everyone since 2 years ago that bitcoin and the cryptospace might become the elite's playground and it appears we are going closer to this while the community celebrates Elon and Saylor.
Thats food for thought all right, Bitcoin will become the playground of the elite
while we do indeed celebrate Elon and Michael. Eventhough Michael is in one way
good for Bitcoin he is inviting the elite who are able to hoover up many many Bitcoin.
Morgan Stanley will in effect help the those elite to move into the space indirectly.
This is all good from a Bitcoin price as it rises, but it pushes it further away from
the peple who need it most.
I know, I know ordinary people will still be able to buy it but just not as much.
Are you quite certain Michael Saylor is good for bitcoin? You should read his tweets. It appears that he has his own ideas or
rules on how bitcoin should be used and what should bitcoin be. However, I have not witnessed any bitcoin influencer argue with him as long as the price is pumping hehehehe. This is certainly beginning to be their playground.
i'm actually not certain Michael Saylor is good for Bitcoin thats a whole different
discussion. I understand why he is in now and I kind of get his motives to be
very active on twitter and yourtube, I know is that a lot of other people love the
fact that his presence and arguments for adopting Bitcoin are good for the increasing
price of Bitcoin.
I also know that he is helping to infleuence the Elite and possibly Morgan Stanley about
Bitcoin which is not wholly positive, its easy to get caught up in what is happening
currently, maybe we need to step back and reflect on the implications that these
big investors will cause?