Since this is science please make no discussion about how crypto currency is bad, I think we are all in agreement it's a giant waste of electricity used only for cp and drugs. Let's discuss only ways crypto currency could be destroyed. Would introducing fake crypto currency destroy the value enough to make it worthless, or would there have to be a more brute force method of destroying the program itself or possibly targeting mining rigs with viruses? I'm not a computer expert that's why I'm asking you people.
Shortage of capital as an entity sure, shortage of capital as a function of productive economy? I’m not so sure, plus people don’t like getting burned
BlackRock with its 8.7 trillion under management has begun to invest in bitcoin futures. very recently back in February of this year. not bitcoin itself, but gambling on whether or not bitcoin goes up or down in a given period. like oil futures.
what I was saying was, given how concentrated capital is, if institutional investors invest just a tiny portion of their capital into crypto, it will remain at it's current price just by virtue of the fact that what's tiny for them is huge for everyone else.
AND their investments will never have a 'moment of truth.' loans and equity investments have a moment of truth because loans have to be paid back and firms have to grow for their shares to be worth anything. bitcoin can remain as useless as it currently is, but it'll keep on growing because the entire thing is rooted in capital not having a better place to go. if people want to keep on pretending, itll keep on growing.
if you invest in apple you might make or lose 1%. if you invest in crypo you might make or lose 90%. that's literally the entire purpose of bitcoin. its russian roulette with a bb gun. there are plenty of small capitalist that have all of their wealth tied up in it. if it crashes theyll blow their brains out. but most of what is propping it up is institutional investors. and they dont give a shit which way it goes.
it'll keep on being a lucrative investment so long as the average rate of return on the market is less than inflation.
Yes, but purpose of any investment is to exctract money from the people, preferably poor ones. Market makers always make profit, that’s not relevant. What relevant is if poor people get burned, when all smoke and mirrors collapses, they’ll exit everywhere and liquidity in crypto is actually not there for simultaneous 200 billion exit. When dumb money disappears, suddenly the market is no longer so lucrative, and only main standing ones will remain somewhat relevant, like btc or eth. As for 90 percent return - commodities also swing by that amount sometimes