Re:How to invest without knowing the future
by toto444 on Friday November 12, 2021 @10:19AM
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I am surprised no one has replied something like : "Buy bitcoins. Contrary to fiat money Bitcoin can't be printed by governments and as a result there is no inflation with Bitcoin" yet.
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Re:How to invest without knowing the future
by camgunz on Friday November 12, 2021 @11:10AM
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Bitcoin also tends to lose value as inflation rises, so it's just a more convoluted way of advocating for BTC over traditional stocks.
Re:How to invest without knowing the future
by mattnewton on Friday November 12, 2021 @11:26AM
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I think it would suffer from the gold problem though, where what you are buying is _interest_ in the underlying asset. So it peaks before the anticipated inflation, and then during the inflation it actually doesn't keep up as people offload it but don't buy more. Ex-
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/08/gold-as-an-inflation-hedge-h...
Re:How to invest without knowing the future
by camjohnson26 on Friday November 12, 2021 @11:07AM
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Bitcoin is extremely volatile and isn’t directly correlated with inflation, it has the same problem with inflated asset values that everything does right now.