parroting the meaningless rhetorics spinned by the crypto mafia. to the extent that you can't use BTC to buy grocery items / food / a share of stock pay for a meal at restaurant pay for a ticket to a sporting event, concert, cruise, airplance tide, etc. there is no monetary property
Even the idiots over at Investopedia understand that money has more properties than just acceptance at the grocery store.
just because the discussions at Investopedia are above your head. have btc zealots like you ever purchased grocery item w btc. if yes, elaborate. if no, why not?
I am interested to see what happens when the final mineable coin is mined. Off the cuff it seems like it should give rise to strong, conflicting after-effects both bullish and bearish at the same time maybe? The finite coin supply is very much in bitcoin's favor for price upside. I just wonder if the miners all move on to the next coin and start hyping it as they do, whether that might push it to the background a bit, too, over a longer term? I think its a situation without any analogous cases that are redily apparent to me and as a result might produce unexpected results. I do think the never-sellers will keep the bottom from falling out. But volume may start to decline by a bunch which, if it shrinks enough, can lead to weird artifacts.
wtf are you talking about? I can sell my IBIT during working hours and pay off my robinhood cc instantly. you have a fanatical view about money. Its as if yiu believed the USD has been around since the beginning of time
i believe the USD will outlive BTC before the next new fad comes along if nothing, this recent announcment by the ultimate influencer, who has filed for bankruptcy protection more than 6 times, serves as a warning to the zealots to exit or trim
After the final mining reward drops (2140 or something crazy like that) the network will still pay miners to secure it. Centralized scams and their hand waving bullshitters will always exist but they come and go like beanie babies and laboubous because they lack any utility. Miners have already left btc to chase those short term returns, gotten burned, and returned to the fold over and over again. I don't expect much new to happen when the mining rewards run dry. The inevitable and visible nature of the protocol allows everyone to prepare.
In fairness IBIT isn't BTC, it's a BTC IOU. You can take out a loan against your BTC and leverage it the same way as any other asset, and those options are growing rapidly every day. The smart heads know BTC has the best monetary properties, and so they're racing towards it. You couldn't dream up a better collateral asset than BTC if you tried.
a convenient pump-and-dump spin that hasn't worked out lately. The Huge US Bond Market and the US Dollar Blow Off the “Debasement Trade” This debasement-trade theme is a bet that government borrowing and money printing will erode the value of the US dollar dramatically and quickly, and that therefore enough investors will pile into cryptos, gold, silver, and even stocks, to cause prices of those instruments to explode. But the huge bond market has taken the opposite bet, led by the $29-trillion Treasury market, the $11-trillion corporate bond market, the $9-trillion residential MBS market, the $4-trillion municipal bond market, plus the other segments of the bond market, where yields have fallen this year and have been in the same relatively narrow range for the past three years. If the bond market were fearing a rapid and substantial debasement of the US dollar – the theme being hyped by the debasement trade promoters – it would demand much higher yields. But that hasn’t been the case. Since 2023, the dollar has been consolidating; it has the bounced back some since the beginning of July 2025 with the WSJ Dollar Index rising today to 96.4, up by 2.6% from the low at the beginning of July. indeed, a picture is worth a thousand words
like poster Invisiblefan, you keep on parroting the $ printing spin, conveniently ignoring the facts
NVIDIA and Synopsys Announce Strategic Partnership to Revolutionize Engineering and Design food for thought, How will this accelerated AI capability disrupt the Crypto ecosystem, a resource-wasting cesspool of a technology If AI-powered regulatory systems can effectively track illicit cryptocurrency transactions, the perceived anonymity benefit of cryptocurrencies diminishes. Similarly, if AI enables more efficient centralized payment systems, the comparative advantage of decentralized alternatives may narrow.
