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by NemoNobody 228 days ago
Crypto is kind of a scam - like it is one but BTC is a single thing, instantly tradable for money, but "worth" far more than money - that's not something that's going anywhere. If you think about it at all you'll get it.

Consider, how insanely difficult it is normally for me to give you 100k - what do you have worth 100k that can easily be sold? Well, if you have one of these Bitcoin things, you can get 100k cash money in an instant. There are lots of reasons to move money in and out Bitcoin - nobody doing them is going to stop doing them.

I don't see that ever ending tbh

The scam is to hoddl - in theory the holders have made money, buying at way lower than it is now, but they have made nowhere near what the people playing the drops and "fluctuations" have (it's an incredibly manipulated market)

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If you have > $100K of stuff that is easily sold legally, it's not hard to turn that into a certified cheque. It doesn't matter if that's mutual funds, cars, bitcoins, etc.
How is BTC worth more than money?