Sell the news !
While all news and publicity is good, this particular piece isnt too bullish as its just more money invested in a service thats in the business of converting BTC to Fiat.
which requires btc.
think it through, people. sheesh.
This was discussed some months back here -
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6033147 - and the suggestion was it is NOT good news for BTC; in precis:
Buffet is correct, Bitcoin is just a facade for fiat. Bitpay and Peter Thiel have just put that future in concrete.
It was interesting after AnonyMint's lengthy and detailed rebuttal of why Bitpay is such great news for BTC that responses there came...none.
Or should I say...
sheeshThanks for the link to that thread. I have NOT read very many of AnonyMint's posts, yet he seems to have quite a few decent ideas regarding the direction of bitcoin prices. Ultimately, it seems that he is suggesting that the growth curve for bitcoin is gradually declining and NOT linear nor exponential, including the taking into account various investments into BTC infrastructure.
I do NOT purport to understand much advance math, and I remain somewhat disinclined to believe that economics and markets which incorporate human behavior and politics are going to boil down to strict mathematical outcomes - even though historically, we can analyze the outcomes in terms of mathematical formulations.
For example, maybe we could see that historically bitcoin prices had periods of 100x average annual growth and 10x average annual growth and 2x annual growth (which growth rates may NOT be measured in exact yearly increments) and growth rates jump and spurt within these various periods to have an overall growth rate of 10x.. yet having a past average of 10x would NOT mean that we can rely upon 10x into the future.... even though 10X is possible, it seems unlikely to continue for very long into the future b/c it seems that much luck and alignment of stars would need to take place in order to sustain such a rate.
Possibly, projecting future BTC prices with 1.5X average annual growth rate expectations would be more realistic, and if the growth rate turns out to be higher than 50% per year, then the higher outcome(s) would be icing on the cake for investors. Accordingly, a 1.5X growth rate may look like this:
2014 = $400
2015 = $600
2016 = $900
2017 = $1,350
2018 = $1,975
2019 = $2,962.5
2020 = $4,443.75
Even though, this BTC price projection of 1.5X is NOT "to da moon," it would be a decent ROI, and would likely out perform a variety of other investments. I would be thrilled with such an outcome. Any thoughts?