Haha found this funny article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2017/08/15/a-bitcoin-is-worth-4000-why-you-probably-should-not-own-one/?sh=40081f113b08Pay attention to the date it was published (Aug 2017). The conclusion was the best part haha:
Unless you are a professional trader, or you simply want to gamble, stay away from Bitcoins. They have no inherent value, because they are a currency which represents value rather than having value themselves. The Bitcoin currency is not managed by any government agency, nor is it backed by any government. Bitcoin values are purely dependent upon holders having faith they will continue to have value. Right now the market looks a lot more like tulip mania than careful investing.
So beware guys, Bitcoin is a bubble.
I am curious what he will do after he sees this bubble
Maybe he is crying not involving in bitcoin.
There must be thousands of such articles. That one was published in Forbes, which is prestigious, but I think a compilation of articles warning that Bitcoin had no intrinsic value and the like would be enough to write a book.
Btw, thanks to xhomerx10 for designing my new hat.
I wonder if he got paid to make that article and tell the public that bitcoin is not worth the investment because, as an expert, he should search for more info about bitcoin before writing the article. Many articles about the bad investment in bitcoin, but the author does not know anything about bitcoin and does not follow the bitcoin journey from the beginning until now.
Huh?
What's new about that?
Many mainstream writers do not know very much about bitcoin, but does not stop them from writing superficial hit pieces about it, whether we are talking historically or currently. Surely the talking points and the distractions are going to change with the passage of time, so some kinds of arguments are not going to play as well now as compared with 4 years ago, but does not stop them from publishing superficial hit pieces, even if they are publishing from a supposed credible financial journal.
They do begin to look more and more stupid, if they fail/refuse to account for some of the more in-depth analysis, but some of those "credible" journals are ready, willing and able to take such chances... and come up with some excuse later (maybe 4 years later) regarding how wrong they were and how dumb their article looked in retrospect.
Question for BobLawBlaw and all of the Wo
I am a 64 year old white straight guy. If I wear these eyeglasses
and a dungaree jacket with the wording
"I am taking back the rainbow for straight people"
across the back , am I an a-hole?
I always liked rainbows since I was kid and now rainbows seem to be gay property.
Not trolling just starting a dialog.
BTW I could write "rainbows are also for straight people".
Much less aggressive your opinions are welcome
How about: "rainbows are for everyone" or some variation of that ? Without getting into any mention of straight or gay or whatever. Why use provocative language when there seems to be no need for that.
At some point, I should have withdrew my bitcoin.. I kept buying... whoops.
Looks like Gold prices are finally starting to feel the upward push of inflationary policy. I think our BTC rise so far this month has been more of a self fulfilling prophecy situation. Price going up because everyone is expecting it to go up Oct. through Dec. But now Gold is showing the natural effects of money printer go brrr and we'll start to see BTC accelerate in its uppity climb.
Oh? I did not know that bitcoin's investment thesis was a self-fulfilling prophecy.. wow.,. and I did not know that bitcoin was going up merely because more and more people believe.. I thought that there was more there there.
Self-fulfilling prophecy seems to be a pretty damned superficial reason to be into bitcoin.
Whatever, you can believe what you want in regards to why you are into bitcoin, what makes price go uppity (or otherwise) and what kinds of dynamics underly bitcoin's investment thesis.
"Rainbows are for everyone".
Seems to be best choice for the jacket lettering. Along with the glasses of course
Whoops.. you beat me to it...