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11th November 2019, 01:37 AM | #283 |
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I really just watch btc eth and ripple, and have no idea how the latter 2 work, or how much money has been made. I accept it is many billions. But I will always expect them to trend towards zero, because the other 1997 coins will have equally fascinating bios, with a similar outcome going forward.
Is bitcoin like Coca Cola, or Gucchi, no. If the former, Warren Buffet would own bitcoin. |
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Other than the highlighted, I can't make any sense out of this word salad.
You seem to insist that if you divide a finite crypto market by infinite cryptos, you get $0 per crypto. That just illustrates your abysmal maths. Consider the sequence {1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, . . . }: This has an infinite number of terms and a finite sum but many of the terms are an appreciable fraction of the total (not zero). The same is true of cryptos. No matter how many are invented, most will not amount to anything and won't drag money away from the top cryptos. |
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13th November 2019, 01:24 AM | #285 |
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I accept that zero is an unrealistic valuation, but that is all. Pet rocks are probably collectors' items.
I am looking at the world of coal fired power creating this garbage, and fires engulfing East Australia. I am not alone hoping cryptos implode, and I am certain that no one can ascribe an appropriate value, as they might do for food or shelter. |
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I wish I could believe that but no doubt, you will soon go back to your "there are infinite bitcoins so bitcoins have no value" line again as if this exchange never happened.
The inordinate amount of energy used to mine bitcoins around the world is a serious problem. But to suggest that bitcoin is responsible for continuing coal fired power and bush fires is absolutely moronic. You are not the only one. The only reason why this thread has gone on churning stale arguments for so long is the number of posters who are desperately trying to talk bitcoin down. Most have gone by the way side as bitcoin continues to defy all doomsday predictions. |
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Panic selling.
Nearing the 6k handle. The ponzi may be imploding. |
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I am pretty certain that selling right here at 7205 will reap extravagant rewards. the stop loss is tight at 7388.
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23rd November 2019, 01:30 AM | #291 |
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Not really.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme Although it's not a big deal using the word incorrectly. |
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We won't know if Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme or not until 'Satoshi Nakamoto' reveals his true intentions. But many actual Ponzi schemes have been run in the name of Bitcoin and other 'cryptocurrencies'.
Bernie Madoff ran a Ponzi scheme for 48 years before anyone caught on. If only Bitcoin had been around then he could been untouchable! |
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48 years?
Intriguing.? I fear not, for all the pain of the witless investors I feel more for Bernie Madoff. Is suicide painless? Craig Wright has designed a behemoth that he can cash out of if he has the crypto key. He should, the nonsense is disintegrating in beautiful fashion. |
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Assuming that 'Satoshi Nakamoto is still around, the worst 'he' could do is crash the price by selling all his holdings off at once. Even then, that wouldn't necessarily spell the end of bitcoin and whether it does or not, that stlll doesn't make bitcoin a Ponzi scheme.
I can't believe that we have to have this argument yet again about what a Ponzi scheme is. |
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Here is an eyepopping article to illustrate something quite immoral.
The site chosen for the mining operation spans more than 100 acres. When completed, it will not only be the largest Bitcoin mining facility on the planet, but also the largest single data centre in North America. https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/11/18/t...ning-facility/ That alone is a fair reason to wish the price to drop to a level where there is no reward for this CO2 belching enterprise. And if anyone suggests that is ok because when bitcoin 21m is delivered, it will stop, I suggest there will be an immediate clone to carry it on. And further, clean energy if it were to be used, should be employed to save the planet, not to furnish the greed of speculators. |
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Bitcoin itself is just a computer algorithm, but it has been used to implement Ponzi schemes. We still don't know if that is why 'Satoshi Nakamoto' invented it.
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Bitcoin trading could be considered the ultimate economic bubble, since the price is based on nothing of any real value. In that way it is similar to a Ponzi scheme.
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In popular speech an object may be associated with something else which is not literally identical, but similar enough to get the point across. While technically Bitcoin is an asset bubble, what do you call an 'asset' that was created from nothing to make obscene profit for its inventor, and only increases in 'value' due to new 'investors'? Perhaps we need a new name for it - something that doesn't have the words 'coin' or 'currency' in it, and more accurately describes its true nature. |
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That has already happened.
List of cryptocurrencies
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The interesting thing is their prices tend to go up and down together - as if there is no real difference between them in the eyes of 'investors'. |
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And there we have it. The psychic programmer working in concert with the NWO to fleece gullible speculators. Another argument that is as old as the hills (or at least as old as the original bitcoin thread).
'Satoshi Nakamoto' looked into a crystal ball which told him that some random bit of computer code would net him millions - if not billions! |
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You seem to be arguing that bitcoin IS a fraudulent scam run by a shonky operator but the name of that scam is not "Ponzi".
Am I supposed to attribute that piece of ridiculous nonsense to malice or ignorance? Bitcoin is just a digital commodity. Nobody is "running" it. There may be scams that involve bitcoin (just as there are with currencies) but by definition, an inanimate object (even a digital one) can't scam anybody. |
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For those who came in late, any notion that bitcoin was "created from nothing to make obscene profit for its inventor" is completely at odds with history.
The person known as Satoshi Nakamoto originally put the code and blockchain in the public domain so that it could be evaluated. It was his solution to the "Byzantine Generals" problem (ensuring that on line data isn't corrupted by hostile forces). He may have "mined" a large number of bitcoins for himself but this was long before you needed banks of super computers to do so. He wasn't trying to enrich himself. He was just a computer geek. In those early days, bitcoin was literally worth nothing. One holder paid 10,000 BTC for a pizza. It was an exercise that showed how bitcoin could be used as a currency to pay for things. Another "early adopter" offered to sell 10,000 BTC online for $50.00 and couldn't get any takers. It would be years before speculators swooped in and bid up the price of bitcoin and nobody predicted it. |
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I would buy bitcoin at 7253 now for a lazy $1000, stop at 6500.
I hate posting this but heh, the planet is burning regardless |
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What I find really difficult to post is that the TA I considered predictive had not had a consumated pattern.
I no longer expect a 1k rally. Cancell and reverse at 7084. Go short right now. |
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You are right. Bitcoin and OneCoin are nothing alike. They are "chalk and cheese". OneCoin didn't even have a blockchain. The only thing they had was an sql server with a database.
The only similarity is that OneCoin itself didn't run a scam. Instead, it was a shonky operator running the scam based on a fake product. https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50435014 |
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No, you're reading that into my words.
Neither. I don't disagree with any of that, but for the average person I don't think it's terribly important to make the distinction between "scam" and "very bad investment for the novice investor that carries very high risk." To go back to the spider/insect analogy, if someone expresses the opinion that spiders are icky, nothing of value is gained by arguing them down and making sure they understand how valuable spiders are to the ecosystem and making sure they understand spiders are not insects. While that's all true, they will still think spiders are icky. |
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It IS you know. Words like "scam", ""ponzi", "pyramid" etc are emotionally charged words designed to make people negative about bitcoin regardless of the facts. It implies that somebody is running the whole thing. You can't say that any argument is ok as long as it is against bitcoin.
If you are going to post about bitcoin then you must tell the truth. The truth is that bitcoin is a risky investment. It doesn't mean that everybody who buys any is going to lose and it doesn't mean an inevitable fall to zero. That is what the emotional arguments are trying to get people believe regardless of the facts. |
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Which would be of great concern if we were talking about people, not such a big deal when talking about an abstraction.
I'm not saying that. I'm saying it's not a big deal if people who already don't like Bitcoin aren't perfect in how they articulate why they don't like it. Yes, it is neither a Ponzi scheme nor a pyramid scheme, but the damage done by someone incorrectly labeling it as such is about the same as the damage done by someone who incorrectly labels a spider as an insect. This is clearly very important to you. But why? How are you harmed? All of which are important only if you're invested in getting people to buy bitcoin. |
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Because only an idiot would use the wrong argument against something.
If I said that power points were dangerous because they were full of evil spirits instead of high voltage electricity you would be the first person to condemn me as ignorant. "Any argument will do as long as it is against bitcoin" is the antithesis of critical thinking. |
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Maybe. One exception could be that it were of trivial importance and not worth arguing over.
A distinction of tremendous importance to someone tasked with installing, maintaining and repairing this equipment. Not so important if your only concern was that someone, such as a child, not mess with it. Again, not what I'm saying. |
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The same principle applies to crypto currencies. It is of critical importance whether the crypto is being maintained by a person or by a system that renders the records immutable. (See OneCoin above).
That's exactly what you are saying. You say "trivial importance" because you want everybody to believe that bitcoin is as bad as a ponzi scheme. If they believe that it is a ponzi scheme then that is even better for you. |
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