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Re:Bitcoin (BTC) is up by +22% in a single day, valued at ov... by colordrops on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:01PM (#15867276)
It's the first in a new asset class that provides things that never existed before, mainly being the ability to quickly transact value over great geographic distances and national borders with zero interference from third parties. The value of that is extremely underestimated by most people, and shouldn't be so hard to grasp. Analogous examples are the Internet and Google, which provided very straightforward and simple value propositions that most people did not get, could not predict, and decried until they actually grew to enormous and important positions in society. Cryptocurrency is very possibly in the same vein, making valuations like this seem less absurd.

I wish I had the time and motivation to go back over the last 6 years and create a timeline of people making the same tired statements as yourself. The same types of statements were made when it hit 10 dollars.

Re:Bitcoin (BTC) is up by +22% in a single day, valued at ov... by AjithAntony on Thursday December 07, 2017 @02:32AM (#15868354)
> quickly transact value

Well now it takes hundreds of minutes, in which time the value of your bitcoin has changed, given its current volatility.

Re:Bitcoin (BTC) is up by +22% in a single day, valued at ov... by koonsolo on Thursday December 07, 2017 @04:16AM (#15868693)
I remember a time when my modem had to dial up to internet, and everything was slow. And I remember that whatever you searched on google, there was at least 1 porn result in the top 10. I also remember when electric cars were not nearly as good as gasoline cars.

Technology advances. If you're stuck looking at what is inferior now, you will not see what is possible in the next few years.

You are talking about a technical problem, which can be fixed.

Re:Bitcoin (BTC) is up by +22% in a single day, valued at ov... by IshKebab on Thursday December 07, 2017 @04:58AM (#15868851)
Not all technical problems can be fixed.
Re:Bitcoin (BTC) is up by +22% in a single day, valued at ov... by colordrops on Thursday December 07, 2017 @01:52PM (#15872853)
Sure but that's a general statement not applicable to the current situation. There are already known technical solutions to the scaling problem. The issue is social, i.e. getting everyone to agree to a protocol upgrade, not technical.
Re:Bitcoin (BTC) is up by +22% in a single day, valued at ov... by bllguo on Thursday December 07, 2017 @08:17PM (#15875933)
Kindly note I made no claims about whether bitcoin is or isn't novel technologically. Or whether it has a purpose. I said it was irrational that prices increase when the only news is negative. You're clearly being emotional about this.
Re:Bitcoin (BTC) is up by +22% in a single day, valued at ov... by mdotk on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:32PM (#15867423)
the only problem is that btc is broken and it's become a "store of wealth". digital gold if you will.