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Merged Bitcoin - Part 3

Okay... I'm not up on my "I'm a billionare but only on a spreadsheet" fandom, so how is Bitcoin not a currency?
 
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Okay... I'm not up on my "I'm a billionare but only on a spreadsheet" fandom, so how is Bitcoin not a currency?
There have been many bitter arguments about this aspect in these threads.

The main arguments put by the more rational posters here is that bitcoin is not a debt instrument and it has not been issued by any governing authority. Whether this line of reasoning is valid or not is unimportant to me. I'm quite happy to leave it at "digital asset".
 
Why do I get a feeling that was BitCoin is is going to keep changing as it fails at doing certain things.

It's been heralded as this revolutionary new form of currency but it's only fans treat it was a get rich quick investment scheme, while the only functional use it seems to have is as a Paypal analogue for when you want to order child porn and hitmen on the Dark Web.

Give it a few years and it be a mobile game.
 

Wow, a convincing argument.

You claimed that no one knows. I'm suggesting, based on experience, that you're doing so because YOU don't know, and that you don't want to consider that perhaps other people know more than you do.

As for the latter, were it true that it's just BS you respond to, you wouldn't have made this comment:

When did this become news to you?

That wasn't about BS. It was in response to a perfectly reasonable, if sarcastic, comment. Face it, you just can't let a comment about BTC pass, BS or otherwise, so long as it's negative. You're a BTC groupie.
 
8000 now. It peaked at 8150. It's similar to mid November 2017. Will we have 20k next month again ? I made 44% in 10 days. Symbolic amount, of course. I'm a gamer, not lunatic. But at the moment, the game is surely fun.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if the current rise is at least partly related to the escalation of tariffs in the US/China trade war and the resulting dip in the stock market.
 
You claimed that no one knows. I'm suggesting, based on experience, that you're doing so because YOU don't know, and that you don't want to consider that perhaps other people know more than you do.
So which poster has that magic power to predict future bitcoin prices and has the inside scoop on what is driving the latest price changes?

That wasn't about BS. It was in response to a perfectly reasonable, if sarcastic, comment repeated ad-nauseum for years.
ftfy.
 
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8000 now. It peaked at 8150. It's similar to mid November 2017. Will we have 20k next month again ? I made 44% in 10 days. Symbolic amount, of course. I'm a gamer, not lunatic. But at the moment, the game is surely fun.

That's just speculation in currency. It's like winning on the gee-gees. It's lunatic currency arrangements and nobody has the brains to do anything about it.
 
So which poster has that magic power to predict future bitcoin prices and has the inside scoop on what is driving the latest price changes?

Wow, that's essentially rocketing the goal posts to the moon.


Ah, so in fact you knew that it wasn't new for me. You were just either trolling or, as I noted, entirely incapable of not responding to a negative comment about BTC.

You really should stop digging.
 
You were just either trolling or, as I noted, entirely incapable of not responding to a negative comment about BTC.
And why is it so important to you that I don't point out flaws in the comments against bitcoin? Why is it that you, like many others, are so determined to turn as many people against bitcoin as you can that it becomes a mission that is tackled with a religious fervor?

I can think of only two reasons. One is that some think that any alternative to a government issued currency is immoral - even if it is not a viable alternative. Therefore, we must protect the sheeple from themselves.

The other is that this thread was originally started by a libertarian who gave the thread a ridiculous title. Ever since, there has been such a scramble by people to disassociate themselves from this person that critical thinking went out the window. Woo, ignorant articles on bitcoin and all sorts of silly arguments are all fair game as long as they turn people away from bitcoin.

Just relax. Bitcoin is not about to turn the public into libertarians or criminals.
 
I think it's fair to say that you're not required to like or dislike BTC in order to make money from it.

Chris B.
 
You lie.

Plainly stating that BTC is not a reliable currency is a point.

You do understand that people can click and check that I've said this, right?
Even if we call it "making a point" every subsequent post has been a personal attack.

And why? Because you can't handle being reminded that you have made this "point" over and over again for years.
 

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