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I don't know if we fully realize what good times have come for BTC. 4-5 years ago we dreamed of ETFs and that one day the US would consider Bitcoin as similar to gold. ETFs have been a reality for a long time now, and the huge influence in this market is evident. I generally do not approve of Trump as a person and because of his policy towards Ukraine. But it is a fact that this is the first president to speak out in favor of Bitcoin and promising to make it a national reserve asset. This is already happening in the state of Pennsylvania. Coincidentally or not, it was precisely the state that decided the battle in his favor. I think it's safe to say that Trump won thanks to the votes of bitcoin holders as well. What's next - first for it to actually happen in the US. If the bill to buy 1 million bitcoins is approved, it will have a "huuuge" () impact on the market. Soon after, Europe and China will follow suit. I am absolutely convinced that Germany will one day buy the same bitcoins that it sold at many times higher price. All this makes me happy and proud that hodlers like us, the WO gang, have always been visionaries and envisioned things long before they happened. And this is rewarded with the profit we have. Trump is completely unpredictable in this case because he was the president of the US from 2016 to 2020 and at that time he said that Bitcoin was a scam - and towards the end of his term he passed some very unfavorable laws for Bitcoin which were then mostly revoked by the Biden administration, and it should also be taken into account that futures and spot ETFs were approved precisely during the mandate of the Biden administration.
Trump doesn't have to "thank" anyone except those with big wallets who financed his campaign, and ordinary people served the purpose of voting anyway, and for the last time as Trump promised them.
Even if the US starts buying BTC for its reserves, I don't believe that the EU would follow that example, let alone China. The ECB with Lagarde at the head has an extremely negative attitude towards Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, while China with its communist ideology does not want anything it cannot control, and even less something in which the US will have a large share.
As for Germany, it was not the German government that seized or sold BTC, it was a German province where the seizure took place, and they only followed the law in liquidating the seized funds. In addition, I think that the member states of the Eurozone cannot make any investments of this type without the ECB - a few years ago, the question of selling part of Italy's gold arose, considering that at that time they were the third country in the world in terms of gold reserves. As far as I remember, the ECB commented that selling gold to refinance debts is not an option. Wow Lucius. You really believe that ECB and some of the other supposedly bitcoin hostile jurisdictions are not going to be forced into changing their tune.
Game theory is a bitch, and they should not be so dumb as to ignore game theory for too long.. and sure there are always going to be winners and losers.. early adopters and laggarts.. and it is not going to be exactly black and white, even though the earlier that anyone comes around to bitcoin (even covertly), the better they are likely going to end up.. .. and yeah, maybe some of them are talking down bitcoin while they are secretly accumulating it, too?Forced by whom? Will Trump threaten the EU again with Putler's orcs and North Korean idiots who are already dying on the Russian front?
I thought that my post already sufficiently described ideas of game theory. No bitcoin does not force anyone in the same kinds of ways as kinetic systems, yet if you have a neutral money that is stronger than any other money then you are forced to either adopt or perish because you are still living under horse and buggy or you are still living under the silver standard, and then what happens, your whole society suffers because you are too stupid to recognize the strongest of the monies. Don't be trying to imply that I am referring to traditional military and/or world power strong arm methods because I am not.. but if everyone else adopts the strongest money, the laggards are going to suffer, and the same is true whether we are referring to governments, institutions or individuals. You haven't figured that out yet? You don't know how bitcoin works in terms of favoring early adopters?
By the way Trump is likely to do all kinds of crazy and dumbass shit, which may or may not relate to bitcoin, yet if the overall movement is towards at least not being hostile to bitcoin, then bitcoin is likely going to continue its growth. ... I am not really very wedded to ideas in which we are tying anything related to bitcoin to whatever the fuck politicians do, yet we still see at the same time that there likely is not going to be very much hostility to bitcoin from the Trump administration, even though surely it is also possible that whatever things that he ends up doing could not necessarily be friendly to bitcoin.. so we largely just need to go by somewhat non-specific ideas being batted around currently that include strategic reserves (or strategic stockpile) kinds of ideas.
The US and the EU are completely different when it comes to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general - that's why the resistance in the EU will be much greater, especially because there are different national interests within the EU that can hardly be found to agree on much more banal things.
And might they not be disadvantaged depending on how hostile they end up being towards bitcoin..? And who gives too many shits about crypto, except to the extent that it is used to either attack bitcoin or to contribute towards ambiguities.
Who knows, maybe some of them play a double game and invest in BTC while on the other hand they attack it with all means
You make hardly any sense.
Yeah of course, bitcoin already provides incentives to cooperate rather than to attack, and so you can attack bitcoin, but it is likely not going to do you as much good as figuring out ways to get some.. so yeah, governments and institutions and individuals do not need to be on the same page in regards to their actions... yet still the ones who adopt earlier are going to continue to be more advantaged over those who delay their adoption or aim towards dying as stubborn ass low coiners or no coiners.
- but the fact is that the average European does not have a very positive opinion of Bitcoin considering that the majority of European politicians are extremely negative towards Bitcoin.
Too bad for the citizens if they cannot figure out what is bitcoin and/or they cannot figure out the difference between bitcoin and shitcoins. or they don't know the difference between bitcoin and CBDCs. That will be on them to figure it out.. it is not like there is lacking of information and if they choose to continue to stay dumb, then that's on them. They can have fun staying poor (relatively speaking).
You've probably already read it, but this is the agenda that the ECB and almost the entire EU have been pushing for years.
Bitcoin is being artificially propped up and should not be legitimised by regulators or financial companies as it is more akin to gambling, the European Central Bank said on Wednesday..."Since Bitcoin appears to be neither suitable as a payment system nor as a form of investment, it should be treated as neither in regulatory terms and thus should not be legitimised," Bindseil and Schaaf said.
In an email to Reuters, Bindseil said cryptocurrencies would be best framed as betting or gambling by regulators.
The authors added in the blog that the involvement of asset managers, payment service providers, insurers and banks with crypto "suggests to small investors that investments in bitcoin are sound".
I have read that EU flip flops on the topic of bitcoin, and I am not even claiming that the USA is smarter, even though currently there is a bit of a stroke of luck in regards to potentially less hostility towards bitcoin in the coming years, even though there had been mixed levels of hostility in the USA in the past 4 years.
Bitcoin adoption and learning about bitcoin is not a stagnant matter, and so there are various levels of awareness, and there are varying levels of receptivity and/or hostility in regards to it.
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JJG your post was too small so I expanded the size of it a bit.
You are such a helpful fella.
Observing 90,697@Stamp.
Once again, you are not bullish enough.
Micheal Saylor is calling for BTC to be 6.22x Gold in 2045.
This means that BTC is worth 5 millions in current dollar terms.
Insane.
my biggest regret of BTC is being born in 1957 not 1987.
Hope you all hodl deep and long and it grows to 1 dollar a sat.
Oh gawd Philip.
If you came with more or less the same personality, you would have still screwed things up.
my biggest regret of BTC is being born in 1957 not 1987.
Hope you all hodl deep and long and it grows to 1 dollar a sat.
Being born in 1957 and being here reading these lines, make you even more memorable.
You are young enough to have frontrun BlackRock in the run of the Digital Gold.
It is something I will have engraved in my tombstone.
"Here lies fillippone
stacker,
hodler,
frontran BlackRock"
It may well be true for you, fillippone (as for any of us who largely got into bitcoin prior to 2023, yet for philipma1957, he had been so busy worshiping the dollar, he ended up frequently trading his way out of a large majority of his front-running opportunities.