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What are you talking about? You think gold or silver had to be "lost" in order to have value? No, that's not where value comes from. All of you are speaking like you've never heard of an economy.
Cryptocurrency is an expanding currency market.
Just like gold, just like credit, just like stocks and bonds forex and futures.
As the market gets bigger and more people believe/invest/rely on it, the share one owns of a more valuable market gains value.
More gibberish; there are plenty of reasons for crypto currency to continue to gain value.
National governments are creating digital cryptocurrencies.
Adoption of cryptocurrency is growing constantly.
Governments are investing heavily in existing cryptocurrencies.
There's no functional difference, other than more recent and having more capabilities between cryptocurrencies and the "credit" system that everybody accepts as "normal".
There's every reason for a successful market to continue being successful while it has adoption, investment, development and use.
Yes, even a new market(as all markets once were).
Who cares? You and all cryptobros are still people who will never have even a quarter of what the average baby boomer had at their age, like 7+ children, a home at 19 years old, economic stability, or at least a happy family of four without a college degree. Why? Are they smarter, work harder, or what?
And if they do, they're just holding them warm for when the Mexican Cartels and bigger countries like China come to take everything they have. Rightfully so too. They suck, they deserve it for supporting a currency that empowered organized crime the most.
Holy crap no, that's the point.
The baby boomers have more because they had to invest less up front in their generation.
Investors of all kinds have more money because they invested less by investing early. Circumstances change as time passes, and time is always running out.
Speak for yourself, not for others.
You don't have to be a genius, you have to pay attention to opportunities.
The fundamental insight that created capitalism and, in turn, socialism is that gold is not wealth, gold is what you use to trade wealth, which is ultimately the eponymous means of production.
BTC didn't make a single penny of wealth. It's just a different currency in a world with thousands. BTC actually decreases the wealth of the world by wasting effort and production on a solved problem.
You're literally 250 years behind the curve set by The Wealth of Nations. It can be individually profitable to stick your wealth into BTC just as it can be individually profitable to trade 4X, but at the end of the day all the people with real money own businesses and land.
Not that they were right to think "money" is a zero sum game. You're ultimately just both arguing that trading the shiny rocks is what creates value.
"You're literally 250 years behind the curve set by The Wealth of Nations..."
You're then if I am, since you're repeating my point.
As for the rest of your crap, you're conflating and reducing several comments from several people and misunderstanding mine as a result.
That you don't like the assumptions behind your own words when they're pointed out doesn't stop them from existing, and that comment is pretty rich considering the context.
You're debating your own assumptions rather than directly addressing my comments or clarifying what you don't understand.
You're going to find it very easy to argue against things you made up, but that won't make your presumption relevant.
We're talking about Bitcoin (which has no intrinsic value/usefulness) here. I didn't realize that wasn't clear, so I have now edited my comment to clarify that
Yes, cryptocurrency in general. Not Bitcoin specifically, the most antiquated, slowest, least sustainable one there is (you know, given that it was the first, unlike newer cryptocurrencies which were able to learn from its mistakes and make technological advancements, such as not requiring the power of an entire nation just to run them, and not taking some multiple of 10 minutes before the cashier can finally give you your coffee)
You were stuck on a single cryptocurrency, not me.
There are plenty of reasons for cryptocurrency to gain value.
Great work.