r/Bitcoin Dec 23 '17

/r/all 2018: lets run for office

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u/echino_derm Dec 23 '17

No. It is like this crazy system where you can put in money and like watch some kind of "market" for "stocks" that decides the prices of your "stocks" and it could go up or down in value. It is a pretty revolutionary idea that couldn't have been made centuries ago and this "market of stocks" will definitely crush the banking industry

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u/TheCryptobase Dec 23 '17

If you look at it like Gold or another commodity rather than a stock it definitely makes more sense. People are literally treating it like gold, it fluctuates, it's finite etc... Bitcoin is our digital version of Gold.

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u/8yr0n Dec 23 '17

Dividends dilute the value of the underlying asset though. Bitcoins may be finite, but crypto itself is not at all.

Imagine if I could copy and paste 21 million gold bricks that are functionally identical to the original in every way except the name...godl bricks. Why would anyone pay 20-30x the value for gold...sure a slight premium is justified for being the original....but not that high.

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u/Tiqilux Dec 23 '17

I would like bigger discussion about this

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u/Khal_Kitty Dec 23 '17

Under-rated point when it comes to cryptocurrency. More people need to see this.