How’s the stock market?

r32

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The crypto market is so crazy right now. Shades of 2017 all over again.

16 hours trading today and it's still going. Market is printing money. :jamon:

Can't keep going up like this though, so don't buy now.
 
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The crypto market is so crazy right now. Shades of 2017 all over again.

16 hours trading today and it's still going. Market is printing money. :jamon:

Can't keep going up like this though, so don't buy now.
Is buy and hold a viable strategy with crypto?
 

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Weimar Germany, socialist Venezuela...not a good look. Now imagine the whole world at once thusly impacted. Do you know of any currencies that wouldn't suffer if the Dollar is no longer worth doodley-squat?
???

Every currency other than the ones tied to the dollar should benefit from that. Every time there's a stupid debt ceiling potato-fest most other decent currencies strengthen. Stuff like the Pound, Swiss Franc, Singapore Dollar....
 

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Every currency other than the ones tied to the dollar should benefit from that. Every time there's a stupid debt ceiling potato-fest most other decent currencies strengthen. Stuff like the Pound, Swiss Franc, Singapore Dollar....
That's an awfully short list, and liquidity rules. It's not as if their economies will feed the world. Stone Age...
 

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Crypto market stay very hot over weekend. Many coin pumping and BTC keep going up and hit 12k.
 

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"purchased 21,454 bitcoins at an aggregate purchase price of $250 million"

"This investment reflects our belief that Bitcoin, as the world’s most widely-adopted cryptocurrency, is a dependable store of value and an attractive investment asset with more long-term appreciation potential than holding cash."

 

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"purchased 21,454 bitcoins at an aggregate purchase price of $250 million"

"This investment reflects our belief that Bitcoin, as the world’s most widely-adopted cryptocurrency, is a dependable store of value and an attractive investment asset with more long-term appreciation potential than holding cash."

"...these and other factors may well have a significant depreciating effect on the long-term real value of fiat currencies..."

Bitcoin is a fiat currency. Perhaps Microstrategy has observed how bitcoin has been more acceptable in Venezuela and other countries whose currencies lost significant value.
 

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"...these and other factors may well have a significant depreciating effect on the long-term real value of fiat currencies..."

Bitcoin is a fiat currency. Perhaps Microstrategy has observed how bitcoin has been more acceptable in Venezuela and other countries whose currencies lost significant value.
Bitcoin isn't controlled by a central bank/government and supply is fixed. Two important distinctions from a country's paper money. It's still fiat but depending on how broad you get defining "fiat", unless you are trading hunted/gathered foods for arrowheads, you are using some intermediate store of value to facilitate commerce, with both parties agreeing on value if that commerce is to proceed.

We discussed other currencies as safe havens a week or so ago; you mentioned the Swiss economy is not feeding the world. Flight to the Swiss Franc represents a temporary reprieve at best. Once it throws the price of chocolates and watches out of whack, the Swiss peg it to the Euro so gabillions of people like me, and/or a dozen like George Soros and Sheldon Adelson and Bill Gates, don't drive the value of it up and mess with their economy.

Bitcoin having fixed supply and being stateless has some immunity from those concerns.
 
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I know almost nothing about cryptocurrency. What little I do know, I'd say don't bet anything you can't afford to lose.

But maybe as they inflate our dollars to finance the Pandemic Panic of 2020, it will become the world wide currency of choice?