Zitat des Tages von Erik Voorhees:
The value of Bitcoin is astronomical, but the price goes all over the place as a million buyers and sellers try to figure out what that value is and how likely it is to manifest.
Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out.
Mt. Gox was a teachable moment for everyone in the Bitcoin community, and ShapeShift has innovated these problems out of the picture.
When we started ShapeShift, a future world of natively digital assets was very theoretical.
Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also a huge business opportunity.
Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.
Unfortunately, slow and steady in any financial market is actually impossible.
The Dwolla incident was to be expected. The government will go after sites that it thinks are supposed to register as money transmitters. Some Bitcoin companies will register as such, and some won't, but business will carry on regardless.
In the longterm for Bitcoin, Gox needed to go away.
Bitcoin will hit thousands of dollars per coin, because it's worth at least that much, or it's worth zero.
The big exchanges that hold customer deposits are a big target for hackers, and unfortunately, most bitcoin exchanges store user funds.
Most 'digital currencies' are not really digital currencies at all.
Personally, I had over 550 BTC in Gox. I will never get any of that back.
You cannot have an asset that goes up in price 1% every month or 1% every six months or every day without people starting to start thinking it'll do the same tomorrow, so that's why these bubbles form.
I have no problem with the financial industry inviting the Trojan Horse of blockchain technology into their walled garden. Because I know how powerful the technology is.
Digital currency is now a misnomer for Bitcoin. It can be used as currency, but it can be used for many things.
Credits in your PayPal account are really just USD-backed - they are not a unique currency themselves. Other 'digital currencies,' such as Facebook Credits, can be created out of nothing and without limit, so they are not serious money.