Can someone explain this to me?

[Mik]

I'm taking the Buffett approach - if I don't really understand it I don't invest in it.

[Copper]

@george-k said in Can someone explain this to me?:

Can someone explain this to me?

No

[89th]

@mik said in Can someone explain this to me?:

I'm taking the Buffett approach - if I don't really understand it I don't invest in it.

Ok how about this.

Let's pretend every post by @George-K is a Cheddarcoin, tracked by the post ID. How much money would you spend to own a Cheddarcoin? Once enough people buy his Cheddarcoins, @Klaus announces that TNCR officially supports the use of Cheddarcoin in TNCR transactions. For example, it might cost 5 Cheddarcoins to see a picture of @Doctor-Phibes drink a non-alcoholic beer, or 10 Cheddarcoins to force @mark to buy a Dell off of a Best Buy shelf. Or maybe 50 Cheddarcoins to see a picture of @Aqua-Letifer 's sister, but 100 Cheddarcoins to remove it. How many Cheddarcoins would you pay to watch @Larry wear a BLM shirt or for @Jolly to hire someone to chop down a small maple tree?

[Mik]

@mik said in Can someone explain this to me?:

I'm taking the Buffett approach - if I don't really understand it I don't invest in it.

[Doctor Phibes]

Incidentally, I've been drinking alcohol free beer for the last two weeks.

That makes no sense, either.

[Catseye3]

@89th said in Can someone explain this to me?:

And for @Catseye3 , how about this description:

Thanks, 89th. That's the clearest explanation I've gotten yet.

I'm no economist (eyes rolling here), but it seems to me that bitcoin's supposed advantage is its greatest weakness -- that government backing of a country's currency is what makes it "go", whether you like it or not. Why all the mention of a "strong dollar" like it's THE desirable thing -- with which everyone in the developed world agrees, and everyone relies on.

Something kinda Monopoly money-ish about bitcoin, it seems to me. And it relies on everyone's participation. If enough people drop out, where does that leave you?

[Aqua Letifer]

@catseye3 said in Can someone explain this to me?:

it's THE desirable thing -- with which everyone in the developed world agrees, and everyone relies on.

Don't listen to 89th, he's a sucker. Bitcoin was so 2019.

It's 2021, son, NFT is where it's at! You best get in the game!

[Catseye3]

@aqua-letifer Nix! Don't do this to me! I want no parts of a same-only-different from bitcoin! Having enough trouble as it is. Not to mention that I don't even care that much!

Reading over my last post, I'm embarrassed to feel like Captain Obvious. "Government backing is important?" Really???

[89th]

@aqua-letifer said in Can someone explain this to me?:

@catseye3 said in Can someone explain this to me?:

it's THE desirable thing -- with which everyone in the developed world agrees, and everyone relies on.

Don't listen to 89th, he's a sucker. Bitcoin was so 2019.

It's 2021, son, NFT is where it's at! You best get in the game!

I really think NFTs is the long term value here btw. Being able to "guarantee" ownership of digital property is the way of the future.

The way of the future.

The way of the future.

The way of the future.

The way of the future.

The way of the future.

[89th]

@catseye3 said in Can someone explain this to me?:

Something kinda Monopoly money-ish about bitcoin, it seems to me. And it relies on everyone's participation. If enough people drop out, where does that leave you?

Pretty much!

Although one could argue that could happen even with the US Dollar, but at least for the next few decades that doesn't seem even close to possible.

[LuFins Dad]

@catseye3 said in Can someone explain this to me?:

@89th said in Can someone explain this to me?:

And for @Catseye3 , how about this description:

Thanks, 89th. That's the clearest explanation I've gotten yet.

Something kinda Monopoly money-ish about bitcoin, it seems to me. And it relies on everyone's participation. If enough people drop out, where does that leave you?

And this is different from the regular economy how?

[Horace]

@lufins-dad said in Can someone explain this to me?:

@catseye3 said in Can someone explain this to me?:

@89th said in Can someone explain this to me?:

And for @Catseye3 , how about this description:

Thanks, 89th. That's the clearest explanation I've gotten yet.

Something kinda Monopoly money-ish about bitcoin, it seems to me. And it relies on everyone's participation. If enough people drop out, where does that leave you?

And this is different from the regular economy how?

That's the difference I mentioned in the first response. All currencies rest on agreement that they are valuable, and that agreement in turn rests on something else. The dollar rests on the threat of violence, while bitcoin rests on the inertia of wide adoption and the fact that it's not a fiat currency that depends on the threat of violence.

[Horace]

Liz Warren to the rescue!

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Crypto markets might need bailout someday without proper regulation

What a slime bag.

[xenon]

Another kick at the can on definition.

Bitcoin is an attempt to make digital gold. It acts as a store of value, the supply is constrained (through technical means).

But gold is just a shiny rock (the value doesn't come from its industrial uses). What gives it value is that enough people believe in it.

I will admit that lots of people believe in Bitcoin's value. But it's just a shiny rock, it doesn't do much.

[89th]

@xenon Digital gold, great analogy. Finite supply, inherently worthless, but collective agreement makes it valuable.

[Copper]

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