It has been a while now that I have been watching (FIAT) financial advisors on television being guests on talk shows or Breakfast shows talking down at Bitcoin, whenever they get a chance. This morning another so-called financial expert was invited to a breakfast show and he smashed Bitcoin as an investment option.
Now let's get behind the real reason for this :
1. Those so-called financial advisors (brokers) gets paid a fee to manage other people's money. Why would they promote Bitcoin investment, if people do not need them to trade Bitcoin?
2. They get commission on the financial products that are being sold to their customers. (They get nothing if you buy your own BTC)
3. People do not need "expert" knowledge to invest in Bitcoin. You go to computer... navigate to a local Crypto exchange... open an account online and link the account to your Bank account. Then you wait for the price to drop and you buy some bitcoins.
4. They are also butt hurt, because Crypto currencies are not regulated to protect them.
5. The percentage that you invest in Bitcoin or Crypto currencies..are not available for them to invest in their investment options.
So, next time when you see those financial advisors on TV bad mouthing Bitcoin, think of the things I mentioned above.
A balanced portfolio should have a mix between "low" / "medium" / "high" risk investments.... and Bitcoin will fall within the "High" risk investment category .... so do not tell people to avoid it, because you cannot make money from them making their own investments.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/at-8-990-000-gains-bitcoin-dwarfs-all-other-investments-this-decade“It’s the best-performing asset of the last decade for sure,” said Daniel Polotsky, CEO of CoinFlip, one of the largest bitcoin ATM companies in the U.S.
Say you got into the game when a bitcoin was 10 cents, around October 2010. If you invested $100, you’d have been able to buy about 1,000 bitcoins. <=== $29 610 000 worth at today's value. What will you say in 12 years from now?
That is a pretty illogical and poorly thought out attack on financial advisors on behalf of Bitcoin. Professional and properly regulated financial advisors have a duty to keep peoples money reasonably safe ideally with a reasonable rate of return on investment. Any advisor that is worth their reputation should only have less than 5% of any individuals wealth in highly speculative assets, unless that person has told them to put much more money into it and are fully aware of the risks associated with that. We're talking about Bitcoin, which if someone had invested 100k into about a year ago, they would only have half the amount remaining now, but you sem to think of it as some infallible asset - it is extremely risky and not what sensible people should keep large amounts of their wealth in. It's easy to speculate when you have no money, as many people here might suffer from.