If anyone claims, that money is good, easy, risk free and anyone can get their share of it, it is essentially a scam.
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Bitcoin is not what promised and that fact is being disguised now.
Well, oddly enough, Bitcoin is hard to explain to someone who is brainwashed to think that only fiat currencies, national currencies like USD can be used for payment, trading and storing values.
Before there was a fiat, people used the commodity-based money, so everyone knew what gave it value, which is the work invested to extract this commodity. For example, gold represents the work invested to mine it.
So, that way, Bitcoin has value because it represents the work invested to make it. In particular, in the case of bitcoin, it is an effort invested in securing bitcoin transactions. Yes. Bitcoin transactions are valuable and people work to make more of them.
There is no question why money has value or not !? Why do people believe it's a good idea !?
Fiat currency = credit, promise to work or force others to work in the future. Fiat's currency is inherently unstable because only having value during the promotion of the issuing entity is still considered credible. If there is a doubt that certain countries will not be able to effectively force people to work to get currencies to pay taxes, the currency will collapse.
I wonder what would happen to a nation if they were well-educated about the matter instead. If everyone knew about the
Nixon Shock, would we be treating fiat money the same? Fiat money is nothing but paper. The only "work" that was done to make such is just the printing itself which is, obviously, quite easy that others managed to print fake paper money themselves.
Would people be storing their wealth in the form of money? Or would it be in other (and better) form such as gold, or bitcoin? With the current situation with the inflation these days, it's even better to take a chance and risk your fiat in investing in something as volatile as bitcoin.
Boom of 2017 brought in cryptos many people, who did not understand what they were dealing with. They did not understand, how risky and volatile Btc is. The truth is, that if you don't have good nerves and long time to wait, then you should stay away from cryptos.
The feedback that they have received are from the people who are in this market before the pump. That means those are the people that were able to ride that massive pump and made some fortune from it. Apparently, others thought that they are going to be experiencing the same thing when in reality, it only happens once in a while. Now that we're down from the peak, the newcomers are panicking as this is not what they thought things would turn out. They are all thinking that the person introduced bitcoin to them is making money while they aren't. We'd be lucky to experience another massive pump soon although there's no sign of that happening at all especially now that crypto's image (in general) is going down because of the surge in scam ICOs.