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2 hours ago, RobElliott said:

Whats the minimum number of bitcoin you can buy?

The thing about bitcoin is that you can buy a tiny fraction of one. The whole idea is that unlike pounds, dollars or euros which can be conjured out of nothing, there’s a finite number of bitcoin that will ever exist.

 

Coinbase is the biggest and safest exchange to buy from as I recall. They’ll let you buy (say) £100 worth which would be 0.0035 bitcoins.

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17 hours ago, Ginolaandtonic said:

The thing about bitcoin is that you can buy a tiny fraction of one. The whole idea is that unlike pounds, dollars or euros which can be conjured out of nothing, there’s a finite number of bitcoin that will ever exist.

 

Coinbase is the biggest and safest exchange to buy from as I recall. They’ll let you buy (say) £100 worth which would be 0.0035 bitcoins.

 

Bitcoin is digital, it was quite literally conjured out of nothing. Actual currency needs to be manufactured, and creating more of it devalues the amount currently in circulation so they tend to avoid doing it on a large scale. Last major increase in volume was in 2021 for Sterling, so not like they are churning them out constantly.

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30 minutes ago, Dazzler said:

 

Bitcoin is digital, it was quite literally conjured out of nothing. Actual currency needs to be manufactured, and creating more of it devalues the amount currently in circulation so they tend to avoid doing it on a large scale. Last major increase in volume was in 2021 for Sterling, so not like they are churning them out constantly.

There is no upper limit as to how many Pounds/Euros/Dollars can be created which why the value of fiat currency is constantly falling.

 

The opposite is true of Bitcoin which is why its value has risen.

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7 minutes ago, Ginolaandtonic said:

There is no upper limit as to how many Pounds/Euros/Dollars can be created which why the value of fiat currency is constantly falling.

 

The opposite is true of Bitcoin which is why its value has risen.

 

The value isn't constantly falling though, this is incorrect. Between 2014 - 2018 the value of Sterling in circulation increased year on year by roughly 1% per year. Then covid and brexit happened. So far this year the value of Sterling in circulation has held steady to 2022. Still lower than 2018, but hasn't fallen compared to the prior year (it's actually increased by 0.08%). Average value is largely static and has really only been affected by economic uncertainty in the country so it's incorrect to make out that it is in a constant decline. 

 

Bitcoin prices have dropped substantially and increased again over that same time period. In October 2021 the price was $61k,  a year later it was down to $16k, and even now it's only back up to $28k. It's value has risen over a very short lifespan, but it's far, far more volatile than traditional currency. 

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24 minutes ago, Dazzler said:

 

The value isn't constantly falling though, this is incorrect. Between 2014 - 2018 the value of Sterling in circulation increased year on year by roughly 1% per year. Then covid and brexit happened. So far this year the value of Sterling in circulation has held steady to 2022. Still lower than 2018, but hasn't fallen compared to the prior year (it's actually increased by 0.08%). Average value is largely static and has really only been affected by economic uncertainty in the country so it's incorrect to make out that it is in a constant decline. 

 

Bitcoin prices have dropped substantially and increased again over that same time period. In October 2021 the price was $61k,  a year later it was down to $16k, and even now it's only back up to $28k. It's value has risen over a very short lifespan, but it's far, far more volatile than traditional currency. 


 

Of course it’s more volatile but it’s a completely new currency designed to do what fiat currency doesn’t do, ie store value. Time will tell if Bitcoin will be the currency to do that successfully.

 

Currency was more stable when it was tied to something else (ie gold) and for decades money held its value.

 

The last 50 years or so has seen money being printed at astronomical rates.

 

You can argue over a short time scale that fiat is stable but it’s a nonsense argument to try and claim that fiat currency isn’t inherently prone to losing value.

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2 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said:

 No way this bloke is a smoggie, mind. 

Not with a knock off Rolex from a Turkish bazaar. Smoggies don't have opposable thumbs, a watch would fall right off.

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