He's aware of Bitcoin. He was a Twitter follower of mine and also followed my blog.
Yes and he breaks that statement about old dogs and new tricks...
reading an article or a twit about bitcoin is much different then going out and actually downloading the client
and acquiring 10 BTC. you will always find exceptions. I see a few on this forum.
if those metal gurus ever started preaching about bitcoin all the hard core gold/bullets/food bugs would
drop them so fast and laugh at them. To think they should spend their gold/silver or current fiat holdings
for something like bitcoin which is a digital currency is very funny.
50 and 60 year olds know about the metals from past experience in the 80s. they saw the elephant with their
own eyes. to expect them to learn a new trick, attempt to understand why bitcoin is useful, why it could
possibly have value, will just glaze over their eyes. they will just continue to stack those metals.
fiat == bad. inflation. govt. corrupt
digital currency == worse. no intrinsic value. no long history. can disappear with a crash of a PC (pls don't bother with saying backups, they have enough trouble holding onto digital pictures), limited acceptance in places they frequent, etc...
metals == i control it. always has value. never goes to 0. chance to keep up with inflation. etc...
Wow I read the first two sentences of what you wrote and couldn't read anymore.
Someone has a sour attitude towards the metal gurus....
metal gurus are useless. a blind squirrel should have saw the nut that 7-10 silver was.
i went through 1000s of ounces selling on ebay with the stupid premiums people paid.
non stop flipping until it went to about 20 an ounce. That is when I stepped back and said
it was a good ride but i no longer think silver is worth 20 an ounce. let others take the risk.
sold my gold coin collection (liberty half eagles 1839-1908) and put it as down payment on the
house i am living in. housing market crash was good timing to purchase. gold is over priced when
coming out of the ground at 600-800 an ounce.
then i decide i no longer want metals, i have my house, i think stocks are cheap. especially dividend paying
stocks. people sold them off. i bought those. good times there. now they are expensive though.
i do not bother listen to metal gurus who say the same thing decade after decade.. finally getting it right
this decade. i think for myself. i look for next opportunity.
so i am not sour on them. i am bored of them. like listening to a parrot screeching for a cracker.
when people want bitcoins, bitcoins, bitcoins.. i want out of them. time to sell. sell as fast as you can.
move on to greener pastures that have more potential. nothing wrong with a profit!
old dogs, new tricks. they will not get bitcoin. no interest in it. they know gold and silver though. and as
before they will ride it up up up.. and all the way back down. commodities have been doing this cycle for
200 years.
end rant.