Recent content by Arden

  1. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Ok so it sounds like our real argument is: I think BTC is sovereign resistant but not sovereign immune, and that it doesn't need to be immune to be a better currency than fiat. You think it's not sovereign resistant, and therefore it's not better than fiat. Fair?
  2. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Going to stop you right there. That's not my quote and that's not what I mean. Go back and look again. Stop changing the words in my quote lol. Dick move. Here you go, my original quote: "Because bitcoin is decentralized, it is largely beyond the reach of government manipulation." See the...
  3. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    The whole "but what if the government bans it" argument has been around forever, so it's not surprising to see it, but if you're paying even a little bit of attention to the news it has never been less relevant
  4. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Don't want to get into a retarded argument, but fwiw I'm not shifting goal posts. Look back at what I said- I said BTC was "largely beyond the reach of government manipulation." What I mean is (unlike fiat), BTC is immune to a lot of the fuckery that governments can do with the fiat-based...
  5. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    If your argument is that the US government is powerful enough to make pretty much any store of value useless if they want to- sure i 💯 agree. What i meant when i said it was largely beyond the reach of govt manipulation was that it records every transaction on an immutable public ledger that...
  6. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    The Bitcoin blockchain is maintained by tens of thousands of nodes in more than 100 countries. It doesn’t depend on Coinbase (or any single company) to function. Not saying a government couldn't disrupt btc price action or prevent certain people from accessing their btc, but the likelihood of...
  7. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Because bitcoin is decentralized, it is largely beyond the reach of government manipulation. Because there is a hard-coded finite supply of bitcoin, it can't be inflated. Because bitcoin exists in the electronic medium, it is much easier to move and store than gold. Because of all those...
  8. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Think youre missing the point. It *is* decentralized. As far as being detached from fiat currency and the stockmarket, the selling point for BTC is that it seeks to be so. I don't think Satoshi ever suggested it had achieved that goal. Like I said, im sure you could come up with some random...
  9. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Ive never seen anyone outside Twitter crypto bot accounts say anything that stupid.
  10. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean 300x fwd PE is kind of hard to ignore. Just like before, Burry isn't wrong, it's just a question of timing.
  11. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Despite BTC's strides towards recognition as an inflation hedge, it still fundamentally behaves closer to a Nasdaq listing than it does to gold. In that regard, it continues to function as something of a leading indicator of tech pain (and gain).
  12. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Such a joke at this point.
  13. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Having kind of a similar conversation with my mom. Ive gotten her to grasp the issues with keeping all of her savings in usd, but she (reasonably) wants to understand btc better before she invests.
  14. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    FWIW, I actually think self custody is a pretty big deal and that's one reason I chose fbtc.
  15. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Nothingstopsthistrain.gif Interesting the poster didn't mention BTC. I guess he was limiting his life rafts to actual physical assets: gold, silver, property, etc., but i wonder why? Unless he thinks we are going to undergo a societal collapse and toally lose the ability to power computers...