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by ericsoderstrom 3109 days ago
What about people who bought pets.com or webvan stock, or any number of countless stocks which soon became worthless?
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Most coins will become close to worthless, but many will survive and support whole new industries. And this time it looks like it wont be an ad supported future, thank $DIETY.
That’s a risk on any day of any calendar year. We can find points and counterpoints to prove any scenario.
That was my point... OP had cherry picked the examples of microsoft and amazon to support the claim that buying and holding cryptocurrency through a bubble is a smart investment, which is of course absurd.
What I meant was that if you distribute your money across all cryptocurrencies even if some of them become worthlesss you won’t have anything to regret, in he long run. I don’t know if anyone who had the foresight to cherrypick MSFT and AMZN. Most of them invested in the tech basket. This is just general diversification principle nothing new