<div dir="ltr">Here is my post few years back on Reddit. The model is still valid. <br><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9cqi0k/bitcoin_power_law_over_10_year_period_all_the_way/">https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9cqi0k/bitcoin_power_law_over_10_year_period_all_the_way/</a><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 1:46 PM Giovanni Santostasi <<a href="mailto:gsantostasi@gmail.com">gsantostasi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">By the way my model predict a BTC value of 1 M by 2030. Keep this as evidence of my prediction so we can be back to in in 8 years from now.<br>Giovanni </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 1:45 PM Giovanni Santostasi <<a href="mailto:gsantostasi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gsantostasi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Spike,<div>All this has zero to do with BTC. <br>To answer your doubts:<br><br><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in"><li style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">the value of the stuff depends on control of the quantity (BitCoin does that, but there is no way to stop a dozen companies from starting their own competing digital currencies, dragging down the value of all of it)<br>Right, this why it was genius to have a finite number of BTC, this makes it more like gold than cash. <br>I have models for BTC long time growth (it follows a power law in time) that have been very reliable for the past 10 years (I started these projections in 2012). There are 100s of competing currencies but nothing comes close to the value of BTC. This is both because BTC brand value but also because of the established network effect that is almost impossible to beat. So this problem of competing cryptocurrencies is not a problem at all because in the last 11 years nothing was able to beat BTC in terms of dominance in the market. Besides the cryptomarket works more like an ecosystem where other cryptos (in particular the stongest ones) give value to each other instead of competing with each other. <u></u></li><li style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">there is a weak link in the chain if we need to swap digital currency to fiat money and back, which looks to me like a demonstration of that weakness just happened with FTX.<br>It is not much the idea of converting to FIAT currencies that is the most risky point of failure but the fact most of the points of exchanges are centralized instead of decentralized. <br>In theory people could exchange crypto in person and pay cash for it but this is considered in most places illegal (there is a service called LocalBitcoin that is considered illegal in the US). Attempts to create decentralized exchanges were done and there are few places online where it happens but these exchanges are not very liquid. <br>The long term solution to all this would be the full adoption of BTC as a currency to buy almost anything you can imagine. In that case one could completely bypass the conversion ot FIAT. <br><br></li></ol></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 12:19 PM Giovanni Santostasi <<a href="mailto:gsantostasi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gsantostasi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Almost every single problem with crypto is that we fail in upholding crypto promise: decentralization. I lost 32 BTC because they were sitting in an exchange (while I was trading it) where the owner fled away with the funds (the exchange was called Mintpal, one of the largest at that time). Unfortunately when you deposit crypto in an exchange you lose control of it in a sense because the wallet is owned by the exchange and not you. It is a pretty stupid thing to do in particular when it happened to me that was early on when exchanges were even less secure than now. We need decentralized exchanges. There are few but they are not very liquid. We need to find solutions to this. <br>Giovanni <br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 7:17 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">We have a lot of digital currency followers here, so perhaps some kindhearted hipster can offer me an explanation simple enough a rocket scientist can understand (one who never owned a bitcoin or was convinced the notion of digital currency could work.)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I keep hearing of this FTX digital money exchange, but I don’t understand it. Some news agencies are reporting that it was looted by someone, possibly an insider, but that makes no sense because the main selling point of bitcoin was that ownership is maintained by blockchain, which is said to be inherently secure. So… this looter, what did she steal? Digital currency? Or did FTX have a huge pile of paper currency, and if so, why did FXT have a huge pile of cash when inflation is at 8%? <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">But if they did, was that cash in a safe, then some sneaky scoundrel with the combination hauled away the loot in the back of a very sturdy heavily-loaded delivery truck? A USA bill has about 1g mass, so a million bills is a ton, so even if all that moola was in the largest American bill, the 100, we are still talking 4 tons of currency said to be missing and that just doesn’t sound like something that would be easily carted away. It would be a heeellll of a job just loading the truck. But if it is digital currency which was stolen, how can they suppose the looter somehow got away with 400 megabucks? <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">This story makes no sense to me. A puzzled rocket scientist I am.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Adrian or some of you other hep cats, do explain please.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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