BTC has proven able to surprise in both directions:
It could go to $43 and hit $2,499 in the same 12 month period...
...and this place would be more fun again.
dude, it's a pump and dump shitcoin
it's not superior to any other coin - only in hashrate and that should change too hopefully.
A good coin is no torture but fun. Bitcoin is low-end outdated shitcoin with far too much hashrate on it. (no wonder because it pays miners massive amounts of coins)
People got wise - nobody gonna buy coins just to give their money to miners. Bitcoin is going nowhere until it gets pumped and dumped again at the halving and then do nothing for 4 years again like every p'nD pennystock does.
You got to note: bitcoin goes down for months and months with no real bottom, then shoots up for 2 weeks and gets dumped again. It's the perfect pump and dump shitcoin.
Pretty scammy too.
If you want to save your funds from economic turmoil buy gold, silver, food, guns - not bitcoin
Bitcoin is just a bad gambling-habbit and will go nowhere.
Although your username is pretty hilarious and troll-esque, it's hard to argue against any of your points.
Pump and dump? Check.
Same exact trend has happened to every other alt coin in the history of mankind.
Doge, Aurora, Lite, Black, Dark, NXT, Vert...you name it, it's suffered the same fate. Started dirt cheap, rose astronomically 100-100,000% within a matter of hours/days...then crashed hard to the floor as the pumpers realized profits and moved on.
Bitcoin so far has been no different. Check and compare the long term charts of all these digital currencies. And none of them have ever come back to realize their initial pump and dump prices. None. Matter of fact, most have gone on to become worth basically a milli fraction of what they used to be...or completely vanished altogether.
The entire bitcoin/altcoin game just seems like a virtual game of monopoly by young techies and scammers. It's been ridiculous for months now. Sexcoin? Unobtanium? Pandacoin? Koinye? I mean really...when you step back with a level head and really assess the situation, you'll see how ridiculous the entire thing has become. It's a joke. And the funny thing is, a good majority of these exchanges that have popped up are no different. Young techie scammers with absolutely zero knowledge of how a business or corporation is run...yet it's so easy to feed off the others to buy in because they're even more desperate to turn a profit. Create a decent looking homepage with a 25 dollar wordpress template, create some shill accounts, and write up an ANN thread and basically you'll have investors flocking like flies.
All in all, bitcoin is a fun social and technological experiment, but so far it's mainly brought out the worst in people. Greed. Which is the very exact thing it sought to combat with the corruption of fiat. It's as bad and probably even worse especially when there is such low accountability when you're dealing with faceless people behind a laptop.