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by EternalUsenet 902 days ago
I can’t imagine why I would want to purchase BTC on a vehicle intended for retirement savings. This is absolutely asinine to me and I see so many people losing their shirts and could be rife with abuse. If people really want to, they can gamble their money away at Coinbase.

This is really feeling like tragedy of the commons and needing to find more ways to pull in real money into this system so whales can swim in their piles.
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gruez 902 days ago
>I can’t imagine why I would want to purchase BTC on a vehicle intended for retirement savings.

No capital gains, for one. "Buy BTC for my IRA" =/= "Bet my entire retirement fund on BTC"

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EternalUsenet 902 days ago
I never said entire retirement fund. Way to put words in my mouth. I mean having access to this at all is going to allow degenerate gamblers to have an avenue to spend on BTC and the contagion will spread further, like a self fulfilling prophecy.

Also, the halvening I imagine will be a very bad thing for miners, unless it’s guaranteed to double in price, miners are going to suddenly make less in value after the event occurs. Just because the halvening happened to behave a certain way in the past doesn’t guarantee future results.

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gruez 902 days ago
>I never said entire retirement fund. Way to put words in my mouth. I mean having access to this at all is going to allow degenerate gamblers to have an avenue to spend on BTC and the contagion will spread further, like a self fulfilling prophecy.

You asked for good reasons why someone would put BTC in an IRA, and I gave you one. Whether or not "degenerate gamblers" would follow that advice is moving the goalposts. You can responsibly use your IRA to buy stocks as well, but that's irrespective of whether "degenerate gamblers" would abuse that.

>Also, the halvening I imagine will be a very bad thing for miners [...]

Are you replying to the wrong comment? I thought we were talking about IRAs?

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cykros 902 days ago
If you saw what sorts of stocks people put in their IRA's, putting Bitcoin in there would be the least of your concern.

Remember GME, AMC?

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chomp5977 902 days ago
No one who has bought and held Bitcoin in self custody has lost their shirt.
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ur-whale 902 days ago
> No one who has bought and held Bitcoin in self custody has lost their shirt.

Yup.

Better yet, they own Bitcoins.

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