What i just feel after reading that comparison is just the fear that some people have because they lost the train of earlier adopters and now want to extol the technology while degrade bitcoin as it is...nothing new
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You're spot on. If you read the linked article, the first paragraph goes:
Well, shit. I’ve been watching this situation for a few years, and assuming it would just blow over so we wouldn’t have to talk about it here in this place where we are supposed to be busy improving our lives.
So here he is, a guy that was watching Bitcoin when it was in ~$200 range (or lower), patiently waiting for its imminent death - instead witnessing the price continuously going up, bubbles were popping but new ATHs followed, all while Bitcoin and the very idea of cryptocurrency were more and more legitimised and started to break into the mainstream.
You cannot expect the guy not to develop a massive butt-hurt in such scenario. Especially when he's posing as some sort of money-making expert, who just dismissed potentially the most disruptive concept and, almost certainly, the biggest money-making opportunity of his life.
When his entire identity and reputation gets called into question - he will be doubling down on "Bitcoin is a scam" even if BTC replaced fiat one day (never going to happen btw).
He even went as far as to re-define the definition of "investing" to justify missing the train. Classic coping mechanism.
From the article:
This separation is important because the usefulness of Blockchain is the primary justification people use for the big dumb Bitcoin lottery.
No it isn't? Primary justification would be decentralisation + network effect. What he did was to build a straw man argument and now he's fighting it bravely. The CancerPill - Bitcoin comparison is simply missed. If it was true - why not creating your own copy of Bitcoin and selling it at say 80-90% of current BTC price? Lets see how far that can take him.
All this somehow remind me of this good ol' meme:
I agree. He might have missed his chance to invest in Bitcoin which resulted in him making such false claims and bias opinions about Bitcoin. To be honest, people here have already stated his mistakes and for that I don't need any explanation. It's kind of funny how he compares and shows some unreasonable images and comparison.s