<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Brent Allsop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brent.allsop@canonizer.com" target="_blank">brent.allsop@canonizer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">> As most of you know, in 2010, some guy purchased about $25 worth of
Bitcoin, which is now worth over $800K. My working hypothesis is that
this will continue and that before 2020, Bitcoin will be worth a million
bucks. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe, but if simple extrapolation always worked predicting the future would be easy. It isn't. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> Have you checked the price of Gold, lately? It's been crashing, dramatically, for 2 years now. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. <br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> Why do you think? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>There can only be one reason, the consensus in the free market is that inflation will not be a serious problem in the immediate future and that the greater problem right now is the exact opposite, deflation. Of course the free market is not infallible and can be wrong, but it's probably more likely to be right than you or me<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> The so called gold experts, are saying things like: "The bear market in gold has been going on for two years. It seems to fly in the face of fundamentals, as central banks print enough currency to paper the world."<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Therefore the free market must have decided that factors other than the speed of government printing presses are more important in predicting the future, like the low percentage of factory utilization, high unemployment, and the dramatic increase in the availability of fossil fuels due to new technologies like fracking. <br>
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> Once you factor in the fact that there is a new competitor in town, and that people are starting to sell Gold to buy Bitcoin, that explains what otherwise doesn't make sense</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's ridiculous, most gold traders have probably never even heard of bitcoin and it's below microscopic compared with the gold market. <br>
<br></div><div> John K Clark<br></div><br></div></div></div>