RE: Re listing20 May 2021 15:01
What a load of nonsense.
First of all, cryptocurrency is not (despite what the name suggests) a currency by any rational definition and it’s unlikely it ever will be.
Firstly, there is no central bank issuing it and given it is the fact that central banks are government backed and therefore people can be confident that promise will be met is what underpins the stability of the entire financial system, cryptocurrency in its current incarnation will never be a currency as it is only worth as much as idiots are prepared to pay for it. It’s an incredibly effective ponzi scheme that has benefited from the gullible and people who don’t understand what they are buying.
Secondly, even if you were to ignore the point above, any financial instrument that can regularly drop 50% or increase 5000% in months based on the Tweets of one person is not stable enough to be a currency. Heck, it’s not even an investment. It’s a gamble, pure and simple.
Thirdly, it’s the most inefficient transaction by an enormous margin. The amount of electricity it takes to complete one Bitcoin transaction is equivalent to hundreds of thousands of card transactions.
And I haven’t even touched on the regulatory issues like anti-money laundering and taxation of capital gains.