If bankers were pro-bitcoin, I would be worried. The thing about the loud talking mouths that shit on crypto is, they have no repercussions. Jamie Dimon can say bitcoin is a scam and fraud, then take it back a few months later.
These big-time investors will say one thing and do another. The thing is these companies need to list their moves publicly, so when they get into crypto, they create a splash. The trick is to distract you from the splash with a loud noise. If it is legal, you better fucking believe these entities are going to take advantage. The big players know the retail investors, the ones with 9-5 jobs and families don't have time to research crypto. Most retail investors delegate their research to the big players. "Oh, Warren Buffet is calling bitcoin a scam?" - Must be, end of discussion for that person. Little do they know Warren Buffet owns banks and funds that are buying up risk in crypto, same for Dimon.
Why am I so confident in my investments? This is my "job" - most of my time goes to researching and making connections. This is what I do; Buffet can't tell me shit.
This Year Alone:
Goldman BallSachs plans crypto operations.
Coinbase starts bitcoin custody service.
ICE (parent company to THE fucking NYSE) announces Bakkt. (A company focused on the development of a regulated platform where people can buy and sell cryptocurrencies)
Not to mention all the big companies around the world like SBI investing 100's of millions into crypto infrastructure.
But hey, it's all going to zero, right?
I am sure there were plenty of horse-drawn carriage investors that thought trains were stupid and dangerous. And I'm sure there were some shithole rich people saying trains were shitty and to keep buying up horses. The peons kept listening to the rich and kept buying horses. Meanwhile, train tracks were being built all around the world.
Look at this gem I found:
"Fearful reactions to new technology are age-old and have even picked up speed alongside our rate of innovation. Critics of early Steem-spewing locomotives, for example, thought “that women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and worried that “[female passengers’] uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies as they were accelerated to that speed”—which, for the record, they did and will not.* Others suspected that any human body might simply melt at high speeds."
The only thing that melted was the demand for horses after the train Steemrolled the transportation business.
"As automobiles gained traction in the early 1900s, they were seen by many as noisy, erratic “devil wagons” that women—thought to be prone to fainting, physical weakness, and out-of-the-blue bouts of hysteria—wouldn’t be able to control by themselves and shouldn’t be allowed to drive."
Devil wagons obviously would fail, I mean horses were given to us by God, cars are just unnatural.
Of course, when computers were starting to come up, everyone with a soapbox spoke their minds and gave financial advice, rekting people out of fortunes.
The Internet Was No Different.
Paul Krugman is a fucking award-winning economist. Whatever award he won is invalid now, you don't simply get to fuck up a prediction this bad and still be considered an expert. You don't stich a nose on someone's ass by accident and get to call yourself a doctor, some things are one and done.
The point I am trying to make is some things take just a hint of imagination. The internet is this decentralized place; no one owns the internet. Now, this decentralized internet has a decentralized form of money/value. Open source, immutable, censorship resistant protocols that require zero trust and deliver every time. Bitcoin has never been hacked, this form of protection is invaluable in a world where no data is truly safe, that of course unless it's on the blockchain.
And just like when the net first started, and people cried out that public internet would be an abomination of porn and drug traffickers, and that "intranets," - closed, closely monitored systems that were highly centralized were the future. Here we are again, at the same crossroads, same shit different toilet. We have people crying out that open source money is only for criminals and will never work and only closed, closely monitored systems which are highly centralized will win. Meanwhile, the same people saying this are the same people setting up pick-ax stands outside the proverbial crypto goldmines, laying the train tracks down for the crypto Steem engine that will Steemroll the traditional fiat world as we know it today. Fiat is a big fat horse, and crypto is a highly sophisticated Steem engine, the two merely can't compete.
While the tracks are being laid all around us, and the prominent rich banker people are screaming from their soapboxes that crypto is a scam and fiat is the only thing that will survive, you have to ask yourself, is this deja vu all over again?
Let's not forget why bitcoin why invented in the first place: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on the brink of second bailout for banks." This title was quoted and embedded into the very first transaction ever to be included in the new Bitcoin blockchain (Genesis Block), by Satoshi Nakamoto.
Fast forward almost ten years:
Venezuela resorted to desperate measures to arrest an economic collapse on Monday, lopping five zeros off the bolivar, devaluing it by ninety-five percent and tying it to an obscure state-run cryptocurrency.
The cost of a loaf of bread in Zimbabwe in 2018:
And you think because you live in places like the USA that you will be immune to fiat hyperinflation by central banks? Well, you're wrong, it is just slower bleeding out.
"If you put a frog in hot water, the frog will jump out. If you put a frog in room temperature water and slowly heat it up, the frog will sit in the water until it's boiled alive. "
I leave you with this:
Governments that have a monopoly of the money supply, throughout history, without exception, have all failed in dramatic fashion. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Until the day, we as a human species can have a decentralized, censorship, borderless means of transferring value, war, economic depression, world hunger and a host of many, many problems will always sustain. We as a human species have the power. FUCKING OPT OUT, The numbers are what matter, wake people up, wake everyone up to the illusion that is freedom in a fiat world. The more people that opt out of the old system, and opt in the new decentralized system, the quicker the old system dies.
