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Re:Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin by onlyrealcuzzo on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @08:40PM (#27137046)
Since Day 1 - Bitcoin was worth 1000+ Bitcoins to 1 USD. Yesterday it took $59,000 USD to buy 1 Bitcoin.

It's had a few sharp downs. It's had a few long plateaus of a year or so.

But - from the perspective of yesterday going back a few months - it certainly seemed to only go up.

If the S&P was up over 59,000,000x in 12 years, people would say the S&P only goes up... I mean, they already say "stonks only go up".

Re:Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin by corin_ on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:33PM (#27138099)
Yes it's being going up overall (a lot), but even if you just look at a chart of the last 12 months, it hasn't dipped more now than it did a few times last year - I can see why some people think it's going to keep going up for a long time, and others the opposite, but I can't see why anyone would think "great it's always going up" until now and be scared by a relatively minor dip down here.
Re:Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin by codeulike on Thursday May 13, 2021 @02:09AM (#27138972)
My point exactly
Re:Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin by swiley on Thursday May 13, 2021 @08:05AM (#27141155)
"past performance... future returns"

The S&P keeps going up because if it went down the fed would lower interest rates until it started going up again.