RE: More nonsense posted8 May 2025 14:31
No, early adopters of gold paid an amount commensurate with its value in fiat at the time. Gold price has increased in line with the over supply of fiat over the years. As the saying goes, an ounce of gold would you buy a Saville row suit in 1980 and it will today.
Bitcoin has surged in value as more and more LATE adopters pile in, hoping to chase the bubble upwards. Yes the supply is capped, but 21x nothing is still nothing.
As an example consider my new offering, the Roger Rand (it's like a Kruger rand but it's a crypto, backed not by gold but by nothing)
Next month I will release 20 RR's, then 19 the month after, and then 18 and so on until we reach zero. The supply is therefore capped by both time and quantity. Would you put money into that? If not, why have you bought Bitcoin?
Forget the distributed ledger, that is not unique to Bitcoin and of course is completely unsuitable for rapid real-time transactions. Anybody can make a distributed, copied ledger (and have done)
So where is the value, other than in the bubble you're all chasing up? What happens when momentum flops (think Gompertz curve)