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Re: Parents on childs savings bank accounts are waste of time if not saving on BTC
by
Marvell1
on 14/06/2024, 09:15:48 UTC
Not all parents understand about bitcoin, they are more likely to be afraid because the value that can fluctuate at any time is what parents want, especially lower middle class people have no experience with any investment, so the way they choose is to save money in the bank or make deposits with the APY they know.

That's a safe way for parents to save assets for their children even if they ignore the rising inflation.

Whereas we, the easy generation, understand enough about bitcoin to choose this path instead of saving money in the bank because we have learned a lot about bitcoin the meaning of financial freedom.
Bitcoin will be much better for children's funds for future education or pension funds prepared from now on.

Parents must not only understand about bitcoin, or saving, or investing in general, but they must educate their kids about finances as well. What is the point of running a child savings account, if the kid withdraws and spends all of them when he turns 18. Also parents must be very confident in banks. For example my grandmother during Soviet times was saving money on "passbook" for many years, and with time redenomination has happened and 1000 turned into 1. Banks can go bankrupt. People must be very cautions with savings.

To be fair, banks could fail and our savings could become worthless if inflation gets too high in the future. But bitcoin is not safer because there is also no guarantee that bitcoin can exist by then and people will still need it. It can be said that everything has risks and anything can happen whether it is banking or bitcoin.

I am married with children and am also thinking of using bitcoin as an alternative to banks to save for my children. But I realize everything has risk so I think diversification is the best thing instead of just using bitcoin or banks. No one forbids us to diversify our assets, why do we stubbornly choose just one of them?