Quote from: alizay on August 30, 2018, 11:32:43 AM

Quote from: talkbitcoin on August 30, 2018, 08:46:02 AM

Quote from: alizay on August 29, 2018, 07:09:37 AM

I recently saw a video of Jordan Belfort (the wolf of wallstreet) talking about BTC he was pretty much totally against it saying he thinks the govn't will never allow an anonymous (even though btc isn't anon) global currency that makes it easy to launder money. He thinks the govn'ts will step in and squash btc.

Just curious what does the community think is this just FUD or is what he saying some legit concerns?

- bitcoin isn't anonymous
- people aren't laundering money using bitcoin. they do it using fiat
- bitcoin has been around for 9 years and it has being adopted all this time, nobody tried to "squash" it.
- and finally bitcoin is a decentralized currency that nobody can "squash", in fact it is designed in a way to resist any attempt.

Yea I completely agree I wonder what this guy's real intention is behind this interview. I tend to agree with what some other people said spreading some fud so he can buy a dip maybe, or possibly he is just arrogant and like the attention and hear himself talk.

there is a lot of these people out there trying to undermine bitcoin and attack it. they have a lot of different reasons, i don't know which reason this one has though but usually it is done to spread some FUD so they can buy bitcoin at a small discount but also sometimes it is because they feel threatened by bitcoin and see their whole livelihood is going to be under threat and they lose their foothold in the market because of bitcoin. for example PayPal has been scared for a while now.