[ExI] How can people be so blind about Bitcoin and the future?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Mirco Romanato <painlord2k at libero.it>wrote:

> Il 02/12/2013 20:54, Adrian Tymes ha scritto:
> > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Mirco Romanato <painlord2k at libero.it
> > <mailto:painlord2k at libero.it>> wrote:
> >
> >     I was looking at stuff about Weimar Hyperinflation and come up with
> this
> >     interesting picture
> >
> >     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GermanyHyperChart.jpg
> >
> >     It appear the chart of US $ , €, Yen, ..., against the bitcoin.
> >
> >     Are we around the dash between 1921 and 1922?
> >
> >
> > Unlikely.  There aren't nearly the same factors to force loss of
> > confidence in the other currencies just now.
>
> The light at the end of the tunnel could be the exit or the train.
> You usually know just when it is too late.
> But the noise you hear and the vibrations of the ground could be some
> indication.
>

The data doesn't compare.  Not to say there's nothing today, but it's quite
minor relative to the early 1920s.  By analogy, the tremors have a
magnitude, frequency, and other characteristics of people stomping hard, as
if to make it look like a train, rather than an actual train.
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