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Topic: Nostalgia already: "...Bitcoin...is worth nearly a dollar..." - page 2. (Read 1703 times)

newbie
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http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2011/08/average-life-expectancy-for-fiat.html

"According to a study of 775 fiat currencies by DollarDaze.org, there is no historical precedence for a fiat currency that has succeeded in holding its value. Twenty percent failed through hyperinflation, 21% were destroyed by war, 12% destroyed by independence, 24% were monetarily reformed, and 23% are still in circulation approaching one of the other outcomes."

"The average life expectancy for a fiat currency is 27 years, with the shortest life span being one month. Founded in 1694, the British pound Sterling is the oldest fiat currency in existence. At a ripe old age of 317 years it must be considered a highly successful fiat currency. However, success is relative. The British pound was defined as 12 ounces of silver, so it's worth less than 1/200 or 0.5% of its original value. In other words, the most successful long standing currency in existence has lost 99.5% of its value."

"Given the undeniable track record of currencies, it is clear that on a long enough timeline the survival rate of all fiat currencies drops to zero."


This is so interesting; almost feels like a crystal ball.   Cheesy
legendary
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I think bitcoin will not face that chicken egg chalange like e-gold as bitcoin founder is anonymous and also they can't shutdown all the nodes worlwide. LOL to government
hero member
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I`ll look back in 20 years after BTC gets to 1,000,000$ and see how stupid people were who though that bitcoin is dead now.
hero member
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In few years we could be asking yourself same question if bitcoin jump to 4k?
But also we must be prepared for worst case scenario back to 1$?
legendary
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I am sure after the blocksize debate and the reward halving, we will be back on track.
legendary
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How fast 4 years can go and how fast the price can move in that time.

I think there has been a lot of growth from the claimed hundreds of internet geeks that were mentioned in the article. We are now millions already, which is kind of linear compared to the price growth!

legendary
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Those were great times to be here, but I was a Bit too late having arrived when BitCoin was surging past $2.5/btc. I sure wish I still had all the ones sold at $7 ...
sr. member
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Maybe we can replace the Bitcoin with ETH or any other strong alt coin out there and this can still be applied now.
legendary
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BitCoin has come a long way since then, and I would like to hear what the author of that article would say, if we look at the growth it has seen, since then. BitCoin has changed the financial industry in such a major way, that it cannot be compared with E-Gold or any other cheap attempt at creating a digital currency.

The Geeks and Nerds are now the millionaires of Bitcoin. < Spot the correct spelling now > ^smile^
legendary
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Yeah, this is very interesting.  2011 seems like so long ago in so many ways, and it's hard to believe it was only 5 years ago.  Crazy.  Would have been nice had I bought some way back then instead of chasing the precious metals like everyone was doing then.  Gold & silver were going nuts, but I do remember at least reading about bitcoin in 2011.  It took at least until 2014 before I realized that it wasn't a scam and wasn't going away.  Good times.
hero member
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Yeah now we're in 2016 and still facing the same chicken-egg challenge.
But bitcoin is not only a currency, it's also a store of value and an investment. So the so-called chicken-egg challenge isn't really one: users must come first, as investors, and then more and more retailers can join in as bitcoin becomes a more and more attractive mean of payment.
In other words we know which comes first, between the bitcoin-egg and the bitcoin-chicken  Smiley

Now the real challenges are different: (1) the blocksize issue (2) regulation that might come, supported by masses for whom it's innocent geeks who use bitcoin anymore but terrorists.
donator
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Yeah back in the day many people were capitalizing the "C" in BitCoin. That's nostalgia.

Even the stickied thread on the top of this page was titled: New to BitCoin? Start here!
newbie
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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/04/how-to-start-your-own-private-currency/73327/

"Architects of private currencies face a chicken-egg challenge. To make a new currency popular among users, you have to sign up retailers. To make it popular among retailers, you have to sign up users."

"The most interesting currency facing this existential crisis is BitCoin, a computer-generated currency that is famously traded among a couple hundred computer geeks and merchants. 'The only thing valuable about BitCoin is that there are other nerdy internet denizens that will accept it for payment for things,' Blanchard said."

"BitCoin is backed by neither metals nor man-hours, yet each coin is worth nearly a dollar due to demand for the scarce BitCoins that have been released among the network of users. BitCoin is currently legal and active. But some worry it could face a fate like E-Gold, the bullion-backed online currency that quickly became a favorite of global crooks and money launderers. Its founder was sentenced to house arrest."


This was four years ago; I'm wondering what 'long enough' is for any currency to be legitimized for the masses.
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