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tcp_handshakeryesterday at 1:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

If I offer you a tulip for $25,000 would you buy it?


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throw310822yesterday at 2:27 PM

Sure, if there were a stable enough market in which I can fetch twice that amount for that tulip, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Wouldn't you?

The point being: BTC is a an abstract good, of no practical use except that of being transacted. Has whatever value the people are willing to pay for it, and has had a value in the tens of thousands for long enough that buying one with the intent of keeping it for a while is not such a stupid idea. I don't currently own any but there is a price at which I would buy one, and that price is many thousands of dollars... For an alphanumeric code in a distributed ledger.

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petesergeantyesterday at 2:27 PM

If I think the resale price will stay at $30k long enough for me to flip it, then obviously yes?