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[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 67 points 11 months ago

I once bought 0.0167 BTC at close to 1 BTC = 30k USD evaluation, I was able to sell it for double the value in late 2021, bought some really nice groceries that month. Looking at the 5 year chart it looks like I couldn't have sold at a better time, lmao.

[-] eskimofry@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Good going. Nice groceries are under appreciated. But the watching fresh veggies cook is considerably therapeutic

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

You could have sold now since it's 42k now.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 14 points 11 months ago

I love the future of cryptocurrency where bread will cost 1BTC today and 0.1BTC tomorrow and 10BTC the next.

[-] electriccars@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago

Ain't no loaf of bread costing $42,000.

[-] Syrc@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago
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[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 9 points 11 months ago

but 42k is lower than 60k

[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

October’s 12 month inflation rate was 3.2% trending downwards…

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 34 points 11 months ago

This image is almost two years old.

[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Isn’t bitcoin up 130% for the year? I’m confused

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

Ah, because bitcoin is up 130% for the year October of this years inflation is contextually necessary for inflation from February of 2022.

Wait, no, now I'm confused. This image is old. It is not current. It is not going to reference current events. Or even events of a couple months ago. It's going to reference events from two years ago or older.

[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

The real question is why is a post about conditions that are 2 years old, getting so much traction now when it appears the opposite is relevant?

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

Because inflation is still high and crypto is still volatile.

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[-] nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 41 points 11 months ago

They had me going in the first half, not gonna lie.

[-] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

Holy shit only down 50% which hot crypto is that? I gotta invest, it's clearly gonna moon if it's not fallen 90% like others! Magical unicorn!!

[-] alienanimals@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Only half? Lucky.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

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With inflation at 7.5%, you lose half your money in 9 years. The only way to outperform that consistently, that I have found, is crypto. Just this year I've already lost half my money.

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[-] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago

Bitcoin is not about investment any more than Lemmy is. It is about decentralization that unfortunately has been viewed as an investment.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 points 11 months ago

The thing is that we don't want decentralisation when it comes to money.

Money used to be completely decentralised in the past, there is a reason why we moved away from it.

We are now re-encountering the same issues with cryto as we had in past with real money.

For example our current system allows us to undo human mistakes, like accidentally sending money to the wrong address. With crypto, that just isn't possible.

It is the same reason why so many crypto exchanges popped up, they are essentially the banks of crypto, who have control over the different transactions of their users.

But because it is less regulated, tons of those exchanges are basically scams.

To know how scummy they are, visit: web3isgoinggreat.com

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[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Lemmy being decentralized is a solution to a problem that exists: media companies start nice and then fuck their users when they have enough of them. Decentralization means that acquiring that much power to rug pull is way harder.

Bitcoin has been forever a solution without a problem. The concept of Bitcoin doesn't make sense, the execution of it even less. So the only use it has is taking advantage of techbros' hopium that one day an actual problem will be solved by Bitcoin.

[-] candle_lighter@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Bitcoin doesn't even do the job of decentralization very well either. The blockchain is controlled by the wealthy miners with warehouses full of asic miners. Monero is a better cryptocurrency for that reason.

[-] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I thought Monero was just for buying drugs

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[-] magmaus3@szmer.info 5 points 11 months ago

monero is a better option in this case

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
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[-] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 13 points 11 months ago

And then tomorrow it'll triple

[-] A7thStone@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

This is good for bitcoin

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago
[-] Nanomerce@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[-] Gigan@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Bitcoin is up almost 150% this year.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 14 points 11 months ago
[-] Gigan@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

It's down about 7% from December 2021.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No, it's down 28% from December 3, 2021

[-] Gigan@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Let's keep going. It's up 117% from December 3, 2020.

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[-] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago
[-] Zorque@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

It was 7.9% in February of '22

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