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Breaky Bitcoin Blues

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  • #122
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭[Deleted User]


    Samsong wrote: »
    The sooner bitcoin disappears the better

    But then how would anyone buy alt-coins.


  • #123
    Samsong
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭Samsong


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Calm down gents. This is a trying time for investors in digital coins magicked out of thin air, but decorum costs nothing.

    :rolleyes:

    I'll leave ye too it. Death to Bitcoins


  • #124
    Samsong
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭Samsong


    Ads by Google wrote: »
    But then how would anyone buy alt-coins.

    Vechain will become a regular stock. This is speculation stage and it's a ****ty rigged market. It needs to die.
    The partnerships I have listed multiple times are with real companies.
    Paste the link and see the full list.


  • #125
    asteroids over berlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭asteroids over berlin


    what - Cryptos have made it to after hours!!! The bear market is over and the next bull run is imminent so.
    Most of you are talking crap and do not understand the technology behind it, Bitcoin will not disappear and in fact adoption is growing, just because people jumped on board and took a position at the top of the market in December/January and are now down. As said, adoption is growing, particularly in Asia. Rome was not built in a day, digital currencies are the future. The value of Bitcoin and some other alt coins will reach new all time highs in the near future. Of course, if you invested in **** coins, then you get what you deserve. Anyway, no point preaching to the weak, you guys would get burned in any investment.


  • #126
    Slideways
    Registered Users Posts: 1,989 ✭✭✭Slideways


    The Independant has a bleak article out there for all the shrewd investors :rolleyes:

    https://m.independent.ie/business/world/crypto-worse-than-dotcom-bust-37310547.html


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  • #127
    Samsong
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭Samsong


    Slideways wrote: »
    The Independant has a bleak article out there for all the shrewd investors :rolleyes:

    https://m.independent.ie/business/world/crypto-worse-than-dotcom-bust-37310547.html

    Great article. Very in depth.


  • #128
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    asteroids over berlin wrote: »
    what - Cryptos have made it to after hours!!! The bear market is over and the next bull run is imminent so.
    Most of you are talking crap and do not understand the technology behind it, Bitcoin will not disappear and in fact adoption is growing, just because people jumped on board and took a position at the top of the market in December/January and are now down. As said, adoption is growing, particularly in Asia. Rome was not built in a day, digital currencies are the future. The value of Bitcoin and some other alt coins will reach new all time highs in the near future. Of course, if you invested in **** coins, then you get what you deserve. Anyway, no point preaching to the weak, you guys would get burned in any investment.

    What sort of bitcoin adoption is growing in Asia? Buying it, holding it, spending it etc? Any opinion on the energy it uses?


  • #129
    Samsong
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭Samsong


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    What sort of bitcoin adoption is growing in Asia? Buying it, holding it, spending it etc? Any opinion on the energy it uses?

    Im still waiting for you to get back to me. Did you read the link?


  • #130
    Keyzer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    Like most of these things, if you get in early and it takes off you make a fortune. Late comers are more likely to get burned.

    I know a chap who got into crypto in the very early days and people thought he was mad, which he was but it paid off for him. He cashed out when he was (more than) satisifed with his return and bought a beautiful 600K house outright. Still has a nice pot of cash to keep him going for a couple of years.


  • #131
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Samsong wrote: »
    Im still waiting for you to get back to me. Did you read the link?

    I did. The partnerships are all PoC type stuff. They sign up for incubator progs then hype the hell out of them. The one they claim with Microsoft is especially cheeky and borderline fraudulent. They signed up for a Microsoft Azure account and claimed it was a partnership!!! Lol.


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  • #132
    Samsong
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭Samsong


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    I did. The partnerships are all PoC type stuff. They sign up for incubator progs then hype the hell out of them. The one they claim with Microsoft is especially cheeky and borderline fraudulent. They signed up for a Microsoft Azure account and claimed it was a partnership!!! Lol.

    And the Chinese state ones?
    Dnvgl?


  • #133
    rapul
    Registered Users Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭rapul


    Samsong don't mind Johnny he was banned from the crypto forum for just spewing the same ****e over and over,just ignore him and I see his bumchum Paddy has followed him here haha pathetic,they both think they know all about crypto which is clearly evident they don't know anything


  • #134
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Samsong wrote: »
    And the Chinese state ones?
    Dnvgl?

    All early stage proof of concepts. No vechain being used in anger in an existing industry. I’d suggest a healthy skepticism when dealing with any of the claims and promises of Chinese crypto coin companies.


  • #135
    Samsong
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭Samsong


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    All early stage proof of concepts. No vechain being used in anger in an existing industry. I’d suggest a healthy skepticism when dealing with any of the claims and promises of Chinese crypto coin companies.

    Dnvgl are Norwegian I believe.
    Look we have two different opinions and it's fairly obvious we won't agree so I have no more interest in arguing on this anymore.
    Best of luck


  • #136
    Samsong
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭Samsong


    rapul wrote: »
    Samsong don't mind Johnny he was banned from the crypto forum for just spewing the same ****e over and over,just ignore him and I see his bumchum Paddy has followed him here haha pathetic,they both think they know all about crypto which is clearly evident they don't know anything

    In done.


  • #137
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    rapul wrote: »
    Samsong don't mind Johnny he was banned from the crypto forum for just spewing the same ****e over and over,just ignore him and I see his bumchum Paddy has followed him here haha pathetic,they both think they know all about crypto which is clearly evident they don't know anything

    Bumchum? I see we are dealing with a real intellectual here. Look it’s not cool that you lost money buying digital coins with no inherent value. Not gloating about that at all.

    But it’s not cool to be trying to persuade others to get involved just so you can sell on your coins. All scams have a bag holder at the end. It’s you and your sort this time. Learn from it and move on.


  • #138
    rapul
    Registered Users Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭rapul


    Johnny if you actually read anything that we replied to you on the other forum you would know that I'm actually doing quite well crypto wise and your just pissed you missed the boat ,you have fun in this thread on your high horse


  • #139
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Donovan Shapely Adventurer wrote: »
    There is no grounded ship there. The probability of the top coins rallying again is higher than them completely tanking to 0.

    I bough this coins with holding them for a fairly long time to see how high they would go, because they have dropped a lot doesn’t change that plan.

    Your total obsession with being anti-cryptos is farcical at this stage.
    I'm afraid nox, with all due respect, this belief that a rally is more likely than a collapse reveals your ignorance about just what bitcoin is.

    Physical assets have a residual value. When you buy a property and lose your hole on it, you still have a physical asset. It probably has some utility, and at the very least you'll have something that you can sell, that someone will buy at some price. At some point, that asset's utility will be realised, and its value increased.

    This is not the case with crypto. The bitcoins you hold, have no utility. They cannot be used for anything but selling to someone else. They will never become a proper currency. That ship has sailed.

    What's worse is that the cost of selling your bitcoins increases over time. The longer you hold, the more it will cost to sell. This is generally not a feature of any other asset. The cost of selling a house remains largely fixed (in fact, it often drops with the price). The cost of selling gold, or oil, is largely fixed.

    For bitcoin, the cost of selling increases every time a transaction is made, regardless of the value of the coin.

    Thus it is inevitable that the value of bitcoin will continue to drop, and drop sharply, as the cost of selling outweighs any potential return for users or processors.

    And unlike other assets where something exists which you have to deal with, bitcoin can simply be deleted, gone. And what's worse - you don't know when someone else has deleted their coins. There are millions of bitcoins which have been mined, and never used. For all you know, these have been deleted.
    In a traditional market, this increases the value of your asset. With Bitcoin, it makes it uncertain. You could be holding the only bitcoin left in existence, but you'd never be able to know. That makes it worthless.

    Sell now, get out while you have something. In a decade, bitcoin will be a piece of history and nothing more.


  • #140
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    rapul wrote: »
    Johnny if you actually read anything that we replied to you on the other forum you would know that I'm actually doing quite well crypto wise and your just pissed you missed the boat ,you have fun in this thread on your high horse

    Sorry, I don’t actually remember you from the other forum. I’m sure the good folks of AH don’t want to read about that anyway. I just found your use of the word bumchum offensive. I’ve a son I suspect is a homosexual and find the language unsavoury. He’s also a bit thick so might be the sort to buying overpriced crypto coins based on dubious white papers, paid for articles, outright lies, and a fear of missing out.


  • #141
    rapul
    Registered Users Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭rapul


    Haha you crack me up Johnny I'm out ,you keep pretending to be the crypto guru that you seem to think you are


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  • #142
    conorhal
    Registered Users Posts: 6,981 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    A complete scam of course, and it just goes to shows what happens when large amounts of people who don't understand economics, the creation of wealth, and the systems behind it, attempt to 'get rich quick'.


    That said, not everyone lost money. Over 90% of people did. I made some money off Bitcoin completely by chance. A number of us here at the bank in Frankfurt bought some of them a number of years back. We had intended to give them to one of C-Suite in the bank as a joke present - the 'future of money'. We didn't however, as he died of a massive heart attack before we had the opportunity to do so.


    Anyway, we forgot about them, until last December, where we saw that each coin was valued at over 10k dollars a pop. We cashed them all in at 14700k a pop, which wasn't the height of the bubble, but no point getting greedy with this sort of thing, and ending up being a bag-holder/owner of worthless digital 'beany babies'.


    I paid the required tax on the profits, and was able to purchase a small holiday home in West Cork with the proceeds. I also had enough left over to purchase a golf course membership down there, as well as a Paul Henry painting for the kitchen. So all-in-all, a pleasant experience.


    Don't even bother reading about it these days. There's this idea that those of us who work in traditional banking are terrified of bitcoin. We aren't. It's silly libertarians playing silly games with silly virtual money.


    Generally I agree with your sentements if not that staggering hubris of that last statement. It always amazes me how fast bankers have forgotten that the crash also involved traditional bankers playing with virtual money, a lot of which dissapeared in a poof when the market collapsed. Since moving off the gold standard and into casino banking, there's no real moral high ground for the banks to take against the cryptos, just claims of competence, and A LOT MORE PEOPLE paid the price for the failures of the banking sector and it's various pyramid schemes then those who were putting punts on the wild west of cryptos.


  • #143
    Ray Bloody Purchase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Ray Bloody Purchase


    Why do all these 'canny' investors get so butthurt when a bad word is said about bitcoin?


  • #144
    rapul
    Registered Users Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭rapul


    Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »
    Why do all these 'canny' investors get so butthurt when a bad word is said about bitcoin?

    It tends to be because anyone who doesn't agree with bitcoin let's say is just ignorant to it and doesn't actually want their opinion swayed ,it gets tiring explaining the same stuff over and over year on year

    Also great name Toast is some show haha!


  • #145
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭[Deleted User]


    Pretty clear that the cynics sound more informed that the supporters.


  • #146
    rapul
    Registered Users Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭rapul


    Ads by Google wrote: »
    Pretty clear that the cynics sound more informed that the supporters.

    Would not agree at all ,go over to the actual crypto forum and you might learn something


  • #147
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »
    Why do all these 'canny' investors get so butthurt when a bad word is said about bitcoin?
    Psychology


  • #148
    conorhal
    Registered Users Posts: 6,981 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »
    Why do all these 'canny' investors get so butthurt when a bad word is said about bitcoin?


    Because you're dealing with true believers. I find many of the crypto enthusiasts to have the same near religious zeal as Apple devotess that verges on the cultish. Well the Kool Aid has been well and truly passed around.


  • #149
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭[Deleted User]


    rapul wrote: »
    Would not agree at all ,go over to the actual crypto forum and you might learn something

    I guarantee there is nothing you could possibly teach me about crypto.


  • #150
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Ads by Google wrote: »
    Pretty clear that the cynics sound more informed that the supporters.

    Not really. The thing to remember is that neither of them know for certain. There's no way to tell how crypto's will go in the long run. For some we can make certain limited predictions. Bit coin will never replace currency. There's a goods example of a bar in San Francisco that accepts bitcoin as payment. However it takes hours to process a transaction so it's useless as an actual currency to buy stuff. There are newer crypto's that don't have that problem but you need a stable one if it's going to replace physical currency.

    However as an investment it's all a bit up in the air. I know a guy who retired because of his bitcoin investment. He was lucky. Others like the ones in the OP will lose money. Really when you get down to it, people who invest are betting money. And they're betting on something that's incredibly new, that doesn't always follow the rules of a traditional market. My personal advice would be to have a flutter. It's fun having a few quid in the game and watching your money go up and down. But don't bet the house on it because you could lose it all and no-one can tell you 100% whether you will win or lose.


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  • #151
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Sorry, I don’t actually remember you from the other forum. I’m sure the good folks of AH don’t want to read about that anyway. I just found your use of the word bumchum offensive. I’ve a son I suspect is a homosexual and find the language unsavoury. He’s also a bit thick so might be the sort to buying overpriced crypto coins based on dubious white papers, paid for articles, outright lies, and a fear of missing out.

    Hi Johnny, I’d just like to say that I remember you from reading the Crypto forum. You were actually the poster I was referring to in my previous post.

    Your quality posts, impeccable research, and your patience in the face of such continued abuse was admirable, to say the least.

    The fact you were banned for not responding to a post, which I actually believe you covered in a later post, was way OTT.

    I would also like to condemn the homophobic slurs that were aimed at you, incredibly juvenile and wholly unacceptable.


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