I like your analogy. Thanks man, this made it easier for me to understand. I just learned how to quote and I edited my previous post to reply to Darker45.

Good observation—Donaire isn't the clinching type and might opt to slug it out early, much like he did in his rematch with Inoue. I just hope he can land some of those lethal left hooks to keep Tsutsumi at bay. Otherwise, he could be in serious trouble against Tsutsumi's relentless pressure. Donaire showed clear signs of decline in his bout with Campos; had that fight gone the full twelve rounds, the outcome might have swung the other way. For this match, he needs to make an impact early—or better yet, score a knockout—because if it drags on, things could get rough for him.

You can not have best security if you have reversibility for transactions. If there are things like reversibility, chargeback avaialability to use for processed transactions, there will be no longer existence of transaction security as it can be reversed anytime.

So you have two opposite sides and options to choose, let's choose only one: security or reversibility.
Bitcoin blockchain provides a first one: security, and if you want to have reversibility, choose bank transfers, Paypal and even altcoin blockchains.

Volatility is still a big problem with merchants and business companies that can have good plans for receiving, storing and holding bitcoins a long time for profit and surely against short term volatility or can not have proper plan for converting bitcoin to stable coin or fiat currency immediately after receiving it as they must add conversion rate into payment amount of their customers.

There are still barriers for Bitcoin payment acceptance but there are business can accept it well and the others business can learn from these available good case studies.

Your analysis is so true, your character and composure means a lot after winning lottery, different people have their different ways of celebrating when they win, it's only few determined and reasonable individuals that uses the money from their wins judiciously, most persons end up in the bar after winning, some go into drug taking, buying clothes, shoes, bags, phones just to name but a few.

It is interpreted as harmful as good due to the behavior of the winners after they have won the lottery, you have to invest the money wisely into other business to make profit, but some set of people don't invest after winning, all they do is to live a luxurious lifestyle and end up broke. In life every thing we do depends on luck and when one gets lucky to win, it is worthy to use it wisely than lavish nor waste the resources you were opportune to get.

I’m being cautious right now and not buying yet. Usually, October and November are the months when the price goes up, so based on that, we can assume the price might still drop compared to today’s level. In the previous cycle, everyone was also worried that the price wouldn’t drop, and the same happened before that. Everything repeats itself.

I’m not too focused on the price… if it rises, I get excited to see the value go up before it dips again but that’s not the main goal. The goal is to get as many as possible before it becomes too expensive so I’m focusing more on the unit and not the price.
Like ‘ohh yeah…  now we wait for 22k dip’ , there’s just always that reason to miss out but still, it’s their funds and they can decide to go in however / whenever they like ..

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I think even this ultra-optimistic view as "Bitcoin as the Internet of Money" isn't completely out of reach, although I also don't think it's a really super-likely scenario.

This could happen if really the Bitcoin (or Lightning) wallet becomes "a must-have" where people and economic supply chains depend on to work. It would be intensely connected to the "Bitcoin as a currency" scenario, about which we don't know if it will ever materialize to the extent some early Bitcoiners have described it. But taking into account three factors which could take us there:

1) cryptocurrencies are the only really neutral and censorship resistant form of money (in terms of "nobody can prevent you to hold and transfer it"), besides perhaps cash and physical substitutes like gold which are much more clumsy to handle and will thus probably lose importance.
2) Bitcoin will be probably for decades the most important, most secure and widely accepted cryptocurrency,
3) If a second layer infrastructure develops and gets traction, Bitcoin could become the most efficient form of money too. Merchants would ask you to pay in BTC to save costs.

I agree that gold wouldn't collapse overnight also if this scenario materializes, but it would probably be enough to put its leadership as an asset in danger, with the main contender being Bitcoin.

Interesting scenario and indeed not impossible in my opinion. And where you're probably right is that the geopolitical and economic tensions could continue until the final stretch of the 2020s, as we are already in the middle of the decade. My outlook above was more directed into the post-2027/28 world, perhaps the post-Trump world. Multipolarity also in my opinion does not necessarily mean more tension; if leaders realize again that mercantilism is so 1600s ...

Regarding QE not being absorbed in the next economic crisis, this could indeed occur, but for me to a limited extent: we would probably see a reactivation of the stock market, because people have necessities and the stock market basically is "investing into necessity satisfaction", and thus I firmly believe it will never really "decouple" from reality (i.e. people's basic necessity level, with a reasonable growth rate for technological progress) for more than a couple of years -- with the exception of a big catastrophe like a war. But it is possible that a generalized stock market bubble like the 2010s/2020s tech sector will not be able to form, and Bitcoin indeed could benefit from that scenario. Gold perhaps too, but I continue to believe that its value is mostly not intrinsic but artificial, driven by tradition, and traditions can change.

A major "fiat crisis" is imo unlikely. Countries like Japan show that it is possible to maintain a fiat system in a high level economy even with widely static money supply.

I hope the price is still above $99k as I post this.  The hype and the bubble have all moved over to AI.   Thanks to Trump everyone is selling their bitcoin to makes end meet.   I have a working theory that the volatility of the fall is equal to the volatility of the climb at the same price point.   Simply stated - people sell before they lose money.  If the price hovers at $99k for a few days, a lot of people bought at that price and are now selling.    If it drops quickly (like yesterday), it was from a period of slower investment.

Bitcoin still has value as the first decentralized unhackable currency.  But it is backed by nothing else - and right now people don't see it worth more the price of a month's groceries.


Do not own more than you can afford to lose. 

Fiat is just longer on the global stage.

BTC is the alternative everybody will want in the future if they don't want to be bound to the system they do not control.

 

I'd not be totally sure about that

Gold is basically tradition made value. It has industrial usage, but if we take out jewelry, the demand is negligible in relation to the amount of gold in the world.

Gold jewelry only exists because gold is valuable. The colour of the metal and other properties aren't really relevant as of today.

So let's imagine a scenario where gold enters a decade-long bear market. Central banks sell, people who hoarded gold jewelry sell them because they are panicking that it won't be worthy anymore, and only the industrial users are happy. This has already happened, the last time between ~1980 and ~2000 (see https://goldprice.org/es/gold-price-history.html).

And in this scenario, Bitcoin soars again ...

I don't expect this in the 2020s, but in the 2030s it is possible if Bitcoin adoption continues (and people like Luke-jr don't ruin it).

Here I agree, although I don't think it's impossible that Bitcoin can reach gold's market cap, especially if the above mentioned bear scenario happens.

The principle is governments always follow their citizens. They don't create new things, new technologies for benefits of their citizens. In fact citizens in their communities innovate new things, new technologies for their benefits, and after a while of observation and consideration of possible regulations on such new things, governments will take action and do their legal and regulatory enforcements on their citizens.

It's true with Bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrencies and is always true with many other things.

I don't consider what governments do as manipulation and even they do it, why do we have to mind about it as basically in all markets, there are manipulations from market makers that can be governmental or non-governmental?

CZ being the richest int he crypto world as per this list https://www.bankrate.com/investing/richest-crypto-billionaires/

its impossible Trump does not know him when during his campaign he promise to bring positive news in the crypto market.

To bad Philippines had a weak leader now. It show his negligent and ignorance on his performance.

Philippines can actually raise some points which they can use as their leverage to get a zero tariff from US, but unfortunately the current leader seems didn't do anything and he's been outsmart by Trump.

He can use that expanded free access for US goods or products and also strategic alignment of their  tech and defense. Also for what I know Philippines is rich with its natural resources. To bad they didn' use that as good bargain to ask for zero tariff from Trump.

This is really a bad sign for Philippines and with those situation we see it seems that they have less respect of current leader of Philippines.