(Also your logic alleging that the whales of cryptocurrency extract value from the ecosystem but not for gold, is myopic because TPTB also extract value from gold indirectly which affects your wealth if hodling gold, e.g. compare the rise in wealth of hodling productive assets versus gold in the USA since the 1800s.)

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@r0ach seriously my friend. You barked up the wrong tree and you need to realize it before it’s too late for you. We’ve got a juicy correction on Bitcoin right now so sell that damn antiquated silver and get on the rocket going to $40K – $100K. Don’t let your foolish pride cause you to repeat the mistake I made in 2012 (which I attribute to how acutely ill I was at that time and my entire life turned upside down due to that and my kids being yanked back to USA), and double-down for sloppy-seconds riding a $75K short-bet on China all the way to zero, which ended up making me too poor to join @rpietila on buying 10,000 BTC at $10 in January 2013 (I still had about $70+K but couldn’t risk my only net worth when I was so depleted and ill and increased, unexpected child support expenditures). You’re going to end up being the poster boy for repeating my foolish pride during the exponential move of Bitcoin (you’re already way behind selling BTC for silver at $600 but you can redeem yourself now with a 10 bagger still to go in Bitcoin).