[gonzo41]

If my bank withheld my withdrawals of my money, I'd not behave the most even tempered way.

Whilst I DO think crypto is a scam, or at best a very terrible waste of time and effort from all involved. I will accept that I could be wrong.

But, scam or not, this early turbulent history will cement a stigma of crypto being synonymous with grifters and scammers. I don't see a future in it.

It'll be interesting to see if btc breaks through the 20k barrier today and what effect that has on the hype.

[kayamon]

People mistake Bitcoin, which has no central custodian and will continue clearing transactions all day long, every ten minutes, immune to all interference, with the rest of 'crypto', which is a giant money-lending dumpster fire that isn't backed by anything.

Once all the dust settles down Bitcoin will keep ticking along just like it's been doing for years.

[anon291]

For good reason... Bitcoin enabled this ecosystem, and a currency is ultimately only as good as its ecosystem. For example, Roman Denari are worth nothing as a currency [1]. No banking system accepts them.

[1] Used Denari because it's an old currency I know. Of course, there's collector value, but there are other useless currencies today I've never heard of worth nothing on the collector's market too. Unfortunately, I can't cite any, given how useless they are today.