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?