Saifedean Ammous -- 285d They use their gains to hire private security that is 100x cheaper and 100x more effective than buying bonds to fund genocidal pedophiles in the hope they'd protect you reply [1 reply]They use their gains to hire private security that is 100x cheaper and 100x more effective than buying bonds to fund genocidal pedophiles in the hope they'd protect you
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No, you did not miss the bitcoin train.We are just getting started.Just because bitcoin went up a lot does not mean it cannot go up a lot more. On the contrary, the more it goesup, the more it demonstrates product-market fit, the more likely it is to go up.Bitcoin is different from stocks, bonds, and commodities because it has a much, much larger addressable market.Let's compare:Apple's total addressable market is 8 billion people who can own an iphone and laptop. A lot of them already do,and a lot of them are too poor, so there's just not much more room for growth. Maybe Apple can increase by 5x,or 10x, but it would need to introduce new products that are wildly popular to do so, which is very difficult.Ultimately, an Apple stock is a claim on cashflow, and it is priced based on expectations of Apple cashflow, andit is not easy to continue to increase cashflow once you're a trillion dollar company.But bitcoin is money, and its total addressable market is all of the planet's cash balances, which currentlyinclude something in the range of $100 Trillion in physical government cash and checking and saving bankaccounts, plus ~$120 Trillion in government bonds, ~$22 Trillion in gold, and arguably, a chunk of the world'sreal estate and stock markets, which people are holding to beat inflation, and not to take risk in search ofreturn. All in all, bitcoin's Total Addressable Market is in the range of $200-300 Trillion, which is about 100times larger than what it is now. All of these assets are trash compared to bitcoin, and there is no reason foranyone intelligent to hold a significant position in them. Everything held in these assets has lost ~90% of itsvalue against bitcoin in the last 5 years, and will likely keep losing another 90% every few years. The onlythings maintaining significant demand for these assets at this point are their holders' old age, intelligencedeficiency, and susceptibility to government propaganda. They can continue to hold these assets as they decline,making them poorer, or they can shift to bitcoin and start getting richer. Either way, and regardless of whatthey do, the world's wealth is going to end up in the hard money, and not in the obsolete moneys of thetwentieth century.Bitcoin has no cashflow to price it. Most nocoiners think this makes it a ponzi, but that is only because theyhave never experienced real money, and only have as a frame of reference the hot potato trash fiat money whicheveryone smart tries to exchange for hard assets as soon as they can. They are incapable of understanding peopledemanding to hold money for its own sake, for its ability to hold value, and not for cashflow. This is how goldbecame the money of the world without generating any cash flow, and this is why bitcoin, which is infinitelybetter money than gold, is going to continue to monetize and grow.Nonetheless, bitcoin's demand is highly variable, and with leverage, it will likely continue to be significantlyvolatile for the foreseeable future, so always keep in mind that it could decline significantly, and manage yourposition accordingly.
So what happens when all these old people stop buying bonds which fund governments which fund police and someyoung dudes come into their homes and ask for their bitcoin or else.
They use their gains to hire private security that is 100x cheaper and 100x more effective than buying bonds tofund genocidal pedophiles in the hope they'd protect you
So what happens when all these old people stop buying bonds which fund governments which fund police and some young dudes come into their homes and ask for their bitcoin or else.
And when the private security demands all their corn for a year of protection because there is no one to stop them, what do they do in year 2…?