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Lol holy shit man, I'm not sure I've ever seen someone take something out of context as much as you just did here. First off, I was trying to have a legit convo, not trash talk what you said but to provide my opposing viewpoint (and educated opinion). I'm an investment advisor by trade, so I'm pretty familiar with how money works and what's realistic and what's not..at this present moment.
Oh? So you believe that we are not having an intelligent and or "legit" conversation if the response does not follow some of your expected parameters? Didn't I attempt to respond to all of your points, to the extent that I thought that I understood them to be?
I am almost completely a btc maximalist ( I do like Monero quite a bit ).
Nothing wrong with that, I suppose.
I also don't view btc as much of an investment (since it inherently is not just as satoshi made clear) as I do a currency that is decentralized, permission-less, fungible etc that can change the world. The power it gives back to the people to no longer be fucked over by big banks which are evil to their core is something I've dreamed of since I found out about it.
i suppose if you believe that bitcoin is not meeting its objective, then you are free enough to invest in snake oils, if you believe that they might be able to do better than bitcoin. I personally believe bitcoin is living up to its initial hype, and maybe even beyond expectations. Of course, I did not get involved in BTC in the earliest of days, so I only started to study it in late 2013, within the context of my first beginning to develop a BTC related investment plan and attempting to continue it and to tweak it along the way. Personally, I believe that bitcoin has met if not exceeded my initial expectations, and surely has become a lot more involved in my life than I though that it was going to be, especially in my earliest days of looking into it. Surely, each person is going to have a different opinion regarding his/her life experiences, the extent to which s/he has studied into bitcoin as compared to other possible investments and/or whether s/he is actually content with what bitcoin has delivered in light of initial expectations (and whether those initial expectations were accurate or even if the present expectations are accurate).
I just wanted to quickly point out a few things. I would enjoy an open discussion that doesn't include throwing jabs and trying to belittle someones viewpoints (whether they were perceived correctly or not)..but that doesn't seem like it's your type of thing.
I believe that I am fairly tolerant of differing views, so whether you are getting emotional about it or whether you believe that I am disrespecting you, that is upon you. You said whatever you said, and I responded within my discretion regarding how I thought, at the time, that I should respond. We may or may not end up agreeing, but if you believe that there is some kind of standard regard that you deserve, then we might end up not being ready, willing or able to figure out the extent to which we might agree or disagree about some of these matters or the extent to which our disagreement even matters, because each of us is free to conclude his/her own ways, to invest accordingly or to share or not, such ideas in the various threads of this forum.