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I went by the expanding but you could do yourself a favour and study up on the history money, our current reserve currency, with particular attention to the difference between gold backing and fiat of such, when things changed, and why.

I have done quite a bit of reading on the topic, is there any points in particular you don’t think I understand that you feel would alter my opinion on Bitcoin?

I can’t think of anything in the history of currencies that would disprove my point that the functionality of a currency is reduced the more volatile it becomes, that’s the whole reason central banks put so much focus on managing their currencies, and is one of the reasons why they detached its value from gold.
 
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Is the rise in the Bitcoin price related to lower mining energy costs?
And If the BTC mining energy costs go up again will the price of BTC fall?
 
Is the rise in the Bitcoin price related to lower mining energy costs?
And If the BTC mining energy costs go up again will the price of BTC fall?
Wait.... I thought it woulda been the other way round... Proof of work etc

But I really have no idea and still trying to grasp that, and the stock to flow concept, and whether it's valid or not.
 
Is the rise in the Bitcoin price related to lower mining energy costs?
And If te BTC mining energy costs go up again will the price of BTC fall?
that is an interesting point of view but if energy cost goes up and BTC mining becomes more expensive, it reduces the production so BTC becomes rarer and so should be more expensive;
Doesn't that make BTC POO independent?
 
Am not fully up to date with costs, but I don't see how energy costs would have come down.

With the recent halving (bitcoin mining rates halve every 4 ? years), the costs have gone up, by theoretically double.

Invariably, the price of bitcoin fluctuates around the cost of mining, where energy is paid tor, generally at Western country rates.

Last I checked, bitcoin value was lower than mining cost... any mining investment for me entailed relying on a price rise of bitcoin.
 
When crypto consolidates it generally shows its run out of steam. You see it in the smaller coins first. Slowly starts to slip downwards.
I think they restricted the Asian market which took a lot of the juice out.
 
CleanSpark to acquire Bitcoin mining company ATL Data Centers to generate lower energy costs



10 December 2020
 
Opinions on this?




Interesting idea. I suppose as the world tries to catch on then money piles in.

Its hard to believe it was around the .08 cent mark a decade ago.
A $1000 bucks on a punt back then would have yielded 12500 coins. A cool $375 000 000 at $30000 (a bit less as .08 was USD). I had friends buying pizzas with it (US) back in the day.
 
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