hello_world_btc

Re:Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history (2018) on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:18AM (#26101135)

What's the anti-case against each country launching it's own version of Bitcoin/Altcoin? What's the bull case for bitcoin beyond the fact that it has been the first successful crypto? Genuinely curious.

Re:Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history (2018) on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:02AM (#26101012)

Regardless of whether it's a scam or not, one thing is undeniably true: bitcoin has staying power and with a lot of institutional support being built around it, it's not really going anywhere anytime soon.

Yeah sure there will be volatility in the price for some time or maybe even forever, but at some point we'll have to accept that there are two camps of people: one that believe in it and have a vested interest in it, including in pushing for its wider adoption and the other group that believes that it has no inherent value.

For what it's worth, I'm in the camp that believes that it does have some value, but no where near the level that it's currently trading at. But I'm also a bit biased/bitter, see my submission history :'(

Ask HN: How to deal with financial regret of what could have been?

Posted by hello_world_btc on Thursday February 04, 2021 @03:11PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm in 31 and I know that I'm lucky in the sense that I have a lot going for me: youth, family, savings, etc. but of late I've been having a lot of regret thinking about the past and the decisions I made surrounding btc that I owned early on.A lot of this is probably due to missing out but at one point I had enough that at current market prices would be just north of 100 million USD. It's...

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