Don't Buy Bitcoin. It's Going To Crash!!!

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aresant · 2026-02 · Joke / meme

Top comment of one of the standout Bitcoin-culture memes -> "The best technical analysis anyone has done on bitcoin." [VIDEO]

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ur-whale · 2025-07 · Joke / meme

> What exactly does bitcoin offer the world today? I fully agree that Bitcoin did not become what it was originally built for (a currency system for the internet), and as a matter of fact, for very valid reasons: - custody is really hard, and damn near impossible for most people, including people who like to think of themselves techies and who all end up getting caught with their pants down when exchanges get hacked because they forgot the number one tenet of Bitcoin. Please repeat the mantra after me: Not Your Keys, Not Your coins. - the 10mn confirm thing is a pain for small, casual transactions - scalability (it won't and was never designed do what eg VISA can do in terms of TX/second) - most people are downright horrified when they realize the non-reversibility aspect - most people don't understand what money actually is and hot it works in the first place, so seeing the advantage of BTC is damn near impossible - etc... HOWEVER: that absolutely does not mean that Bitcoin isn't amazing and useful. Bitcoin has simply become something else entirely, a kind of financial instrument that had no equivalent up until now and which has turned out to be profoundly useful to a very large class of people (go ask USA - one of the country with the worse divorce laws on the planet - men in the middle of divorce proceeding for their opinion on the topic of assets that can't be confiscated). Oh and yes, I already hear the shouts from the back of the room: skirting the law!drug dealers! cri

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ur-whale · 2024-11 · Joke / meme

> Soon this will all collapse, reaching all time highs isn't a good thing. Obligatory answers, take your pick: [LINK] [VIDEO] And there's of course, the famous yet mis-attributed Einstein quote about the definition of insanity.

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