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legendary
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January 14, 2015, 10:47:03 AM
#55
When the crowd notices it is way too late to be selling, then BTC will have a dramatic rally.
Bitcoin is falling because scared people are still selling.
legendary
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January 14, 2015, 10:42:47 AM
#54



Hint




There is no such thing as "intrinsic value". What's the intrinsic value of a $100 bill?



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That plus a couple thousand war planes, battle ships, a million heavily armed loons in matching green outfits, some nuclear weapons and the attitude of, "it's whatever I tell you it is, bitch".



 No, it's more like this

legendary
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January 14, 2015, 10:42:24 AM
#53
and the end of this story is, that holland is the world leader in flowers today  Cheesy ! thats the part most people dont tell.
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January 14, 2015, 10:35:07 AM
#52
Its really funny to read the stupid remarks from bagholding people in this thread.   Grin

Bitcoin is a spendable coin, treat it like that and you dont get burned.  If you are stupid then its just your own fault.  Roll Eyes
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January 14, 2015, 10:32:03 AM
#51
Just a stupid comment OP. You should be ashamed.

Maybe flippant but I believe its crashed because there is nothing sacred about bitcoin, for rax to say it just caught on is not a great argument against it.

rax
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January 14, 2015, 10:29:54 AM
#50

And consider that Bitcoin did not have any kind of value for its first one and a half years of existence... Then it just caught on, spontaneously.


Like a bubble then.

Yes! Like the real estate, stock or commodity bubbles markets  Smiley Now you get it.
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January 14, 2015, 10:27:41 AM
#49
Just a stupid comment OP. You should be ashamed.
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January 14, 2015, 10:25:32 AM
#48

And consider that Bitcoin did not have any kind of value for its first one and a half years of existence... Then it just caught on, spontaneously.


Like a bubble then.


legendary
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January 14, 2015, 10:18:32 AM
#47



Hint




There is no such thing as "intrinsic value". What's the intrinsic value of a $100 bill?



1 printer some ink and a blank note
That plus a couple thousand war planes, battle ships, a million heavily armed loons in matching green outfits, some nuclear weapons and the attitude of, "it's whatever I tell you it is, bitch".



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January 14, 2015, 10:12:04 AM
#46
I did a search for "tulips" in the search box on here yesterday and it crashed bitcointalk.

Yes, there are THAT many threads about tulips.


Please, OP...point out another example.  Got none? Because that's the only one in history.
I typed "tulip bitcoin" into google and it destroyed the internet.
rax
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January 14, 2015, 10:09:52 AM
#45
It's not perfect, but there is nothing behind bitcoins value at all other than speculation, or a need to use it to avoid detection. Drugs, money laundering etc.

There is something, actually. The killer feature of Bitcoin is that it is scarce, something that does not hold true for USD. Nor tulips, for that matter.

And there is no such thing as intrinsic value. Things have some value as long as people want to have them. Consider what happens to a fiat currency during an hyperinflation process. And consider that Bitcoin did not have any kind of value for its first one and a half years of existence... Then it just caught on, spontaneously.
legendary
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January 14, 2015, 10:07:58 AM
#44



Hint




There is no such thing as "intrinsic value". What's the intrinsic value of a $100 bill?



1 printer some ink and a blank note
That plus a couple thousand war planes, battle ships, a million heavily armed loons in matching green outfits, some nuclear weapons and the attitude of, "it's whatever I tell you it is, bitch".
legendary
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January 14, 2015, 10:05:22 AM
#43
That's because tulips are basically worthless. They are not fungible, scarce, and they are perishable. Tulips were not the fastest, safest, and cheapest way to spend money anywhere, they were a rediculas choice for storing value.
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January 14, 2015, 10:04:59 AM
#42
Its cool when a 14 year old learns about bitcoin
legendary
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January 14, 2015, 10:00:33 AM
#41



Hint




There is no such thing as "intrinsic value". What's the intrinsic value of a $100 bill?

1 printer some ink and a blank note
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January 14, 2015, 09:55:35 AM
#40


There is no such thing as "intrinsic value". What's the intrinsic value of a $100 bill?


It was created to fund something, a mortgage or spending on something. So in theory it's worth something in an economy. Sure you got governments printing money etc but market forces keep some check on this or otherwise governments couldn't borrow much.

It's not perfect, but there is nothing behind bitcoins value at all other than speculation, or a need to use it to avoid detection. Drugs, money laundering etc.

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January 14, 2015, 09:51:20 AM
#39
This should be in off topic....

and bitcoin is crashing because cryptodouble scammers are selling all their bitcoins even cheap because they dont care about nothing


Or is it chinese miners selling to pay their bills

Or is it the lack in demand with the closure of silk road

Or is it the likely crack down post Paris massacre as to prevent funds reaching ISIS

Or is it the general feeling that this was a bubble, fed by the fears of a global economic collapse that doesn't appear to have happened. e.g. Investors not wanting to be in any currency bought anything tangible, creating spikes in oil, food and bitcoin?




- Yeah maybe

- Hmmm possibly

- Wait wut?

- Hmmm yeah that's the reason.. you won.. congrats
legendary
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January 14, 2015, 09:49:53 AM
#38

the intrinsic value is the price of all the mining equipment, peoples computers, their education, their food they ate in their lifetime, their generational history,

you really picked the wrong word,

now lets look at the intrinsic value of a tulip, its a seed you drop in the ground walk away come back and its their,


So my car should be worth a fortune now then? I mean I paid for the factory to make it, 20 years of servicing, all that petrol I put in it etc. But when I go to sell it I'm told its only worth 200.

Go figure!

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rax
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January 14, 2015, 09:45:37 AM
#37
I think I said bitcoin is purely data, which in turn is stored on a disk, albeit distributed across many machines. Never said anything about your hard disk other than I don't know what's on it so apologise at your leisure.

Seriously dude, go read how it all actually works.  Smiley Bitcoins are not data stored on a disk. Not even "distributed data across many machines".

Hint it resembles this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones


Anyway, this is off topic, the point is bitcoin is as valuable as a tulip bulb. (I mean intrinsic value, I know it's currently worth $200)

There is no such thing as "intrinsic value". What's the intrinsic value of a $100 bill?
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January 14, 2015, 09:45:12 AM
#36

the intrinsic value is the price of all the mining equipment, peoples computers, their education, their food they ate in their lifetime, their generational history,

you really picked the wrong word,

now lets look at the intrinsic value of a tulip, its a seed you drop in the ground walk away come back and its their,


So my car should be worth a fortune now then? I mean I paid for the factory to make it, 20 years of servicing, all that petrol I put in it etc. But when I go to sell it I'm told its only worth 200.

Go figure!
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