Maybe killed is an overstatement, but it definitely flopped hard, and compared to the expectations that bitcoin and crypto advocates were claiming, it definitely failed, and it didn’t even work for almost every use case proposed by bitcoin/general cryptocurrency advocates.
The fact that the price number goes up is a testament to how much speculation can prop up bubbles, even when they’re based on nothing or at best much less valuable, plus the Fed loosening it’s interest rate policy means that they can party again with cheaper money.
I dunno I still think Bitcoin is actually a good store of value and hedge against problems in fiat currency. Probably as good a bet as gold as this point.
Compared to what? My guess is it’s a better bet than most currencies during that time, aside from a few winners that it would have been hard to predict ahead of time. E.g., if 200 years ago, you had taken the most powerful countries and their currencies, and put your money into those, I predict you’d be much worse off than gold.
200 years ago was 1824. So compared to buying land or company stocks (the London and NY stock exchanges were well established by then) or government bonds.
Some quick calculations from chatGPT puts the value from a british government bond (considered the world power then) at about equal to the value of gold, assuming a fixed interest rate of 3% with gold coming out slightly ahead.
I haven’t really checked these calculations but they pass the sniff test (except the part where chatGPT tried to adjust todays dollars for inflation).
Maybe killed is an overstatement, but it definitely flopped hard, and compared to the expectations that bitcoin and crypto advocates were claiming, it definitely failed, and it didn’t even work for almost every use case proposed by bitcoin/general cryptocurrency advocates.
The fact that the price number goes up is a testament to how much speculation can prop up bubbles, even when they’re based on nothing or at best much less valuable, plus the Fed loosening it’s interest rate policy means that they can party again with cheaper money.
I dunno I still think Bitcoin is actually a good store of value and hedge against problems in fiat currency. Probably as good a bet as gold as this point.
Narrator: gold has been a poor bet for 90% of the last 200 years.
(Don’t quote me on that, but it is true that gold was a good bet for about 10 years in recent memory, and a bad bet for most post-industrial time)
Compared to what? My guess is it’s a better bet than most currencies during that time, aside from a few winners that it would have been hard to predict ahead of time. E.g., if 200 years ago, you had taken the most powerful countries and their currencies, and put your money into those, I predict you’d be much worse off than gold.
200 years ago was 1824. So compared to buying land or company stocks (the London and NY stock exchanges were well established by then) or government bonds.
Some quick calculations from chatGPT puts the value from a british government bond (considered the world power then) at about equal to the value of gold, assuming a fixed interest rate of 3% with gold coming out slightly ahead.
I haven’t really checked these calculations but they pass the sniff test (except the part where chatGPT tried to adjust todays dollars for inflation).