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This time will be different, in that it will rise 200% after the dip.
We decided at this point a bird in the hand was better so cashed out 60k. We still have some that we are going to let ride.
This time will be different, in that it will rise 200% after the dip.
Also this:
As Redd Foxx used to say, "Mix it with champagne, and you have 'champipple.'"
Anything with that much volatility is not an investment but gambling...
I am not going to gamble with these prices.... but good on you that you have made money...
One of the big problems that I have with crypto currency is that there is no limiting supply... sure, there is a max number of Bitcoin, but we already know of a number of other 'currencies' (I do not know how people can call them currency but that is another discussion)....
And there is no barrier to entry... IOW, we could have millions/billions of different bit currencies out there... and the only value they have is what can I sell them to somebody else for...
I can see where people are going to be buying some other bit with their current bits and hoping the new bits go up faster... and the person who they bought it from is hoping THEIR bits go up faster...
The difficulty in "mining" bitcoins is artificially mandated. Hence, it took no time for people to create alternate blockchains, and we have 1,200 of them already.
My son bought 900 shares of Ripple at $.24. When he called to tell me about it and said the name I thought of liquor.
If a programmer finds a super way to encode and add a new block to the blockchain faster than anybody else, he would earn all the rewards, meaning all the coins that are allowed for each block generation. Even then, he is still limited to the 21 million coins that are allowed to exist.I also have to wonder whether that "mining" mandate could be overcome through technological means. Fracking revolutionized the energy industry; I'd be surprised if some software engineer somewhere wasn't working right now to crack the bitcoin code. The payoff could be stupendous; of course, the impact on the market would be catastrophic.
Here’s a fun little forecast from Wikipedia:
A World Economic Forum report from September 2015 predicted that by 2025 ten percent of global GDP would be stored on blockchains technology.
2016 world GDP is 126 trillion
+1 Great commentary, thanks.Blockchain concept is useful and people are thinking of applications for it. It does not mean that Bitcoin or any of its current knockoffs will become more and more valuable.
Back in the late 1990s, it was widely anticipated that the Internet would become more and more important. It did not mean that AOL, one of the largest ISPs then would become a dominant factor. AOL did appear formidable for a while and managed to take over Time Warner, which was arguably worth more than AOL. People, including Time Warner management and shareholders did not realize that the Internet was important, but one did not have to get to the Internet via AOL.
Suppose AOL said it would limit the number of subscribers to 21 million. One better hurried up to get a subscription, because when it ran out there would be no more. This kind of artificial limit would not work because who said you had to go through AOL to get to the Internet?
Bitcoin is the first implementation of blockchains. It is not the only blockchain that can exist.
See Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrenciesThe number of cryptocurrencies available over the internet as of 27 November 2017 is over 1324 and growing. A new cryptocurrency can be created at any time...