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I believe he is right and wrong. I see potential huge collapses in the future due to [1] and many people who don't believe in CryptoCurrencies and only invest f
by josephagoss 13y ago
I believe he is right and wrong. I see potential huge collapses in the future due to [1] and many people who don't believe in CryptoCurrencies and only invest for their portfolios will see huge loses. I can imagine some crashes taking years to recover.
However in the long term I see CryptoCurrency as the future and a viable store of value. I think Buffett is right to warn investors not to invest. Only invest if you understand and believe in these technologies.
I sort of cringe with family and friends getting too deep into it because of the historic rate of return.
I'm the sort of person that will hold their coins even if we go to $0.
[1] - A major Government feeling threatened in several years due to a handful of CryptoCurrencies really screwing them over. (See Zerocoin for tax haven, Bitcoin for smashing into value of USD, Ethereum for immortal web servers) declaring that all these currencies and the systems running on top of them (file sharing servers, child porn, unbreakable messaging, etc..) are now illegal.
I think the only reason they will prevail is that the countries that continue to embrace these technologies will benefit from them and become stronger. Eventually the countries that banned them may have to unban them to remain relevant.
- josephagoss 13y agoAlso the timescale for everything I just wrote is around 5 - 30 years in the future.
- sillysaurus3 13y agoI invested a lot of money into bitcoin. Then I lost it. Just one datapoint. But there's no question that bitcoin is extremely dangerous to anyone who buys it. You can lose your private keys. You can have your coins stolen. You can put your trust into the wrong web service. One thing I've realized is that bitcoin is mostly about greed right now. There's no reason to buy it unless you want something that can only be procured via bitcoin, or unless you want to make a lot of money. But unless you're very lucky, you won't make a lot of money. You'll probably lose money. I would agree with Buffet. Unless someone comes up with a compelling reason to buy bitcoin, then don't.