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kleinbl00  ·  2787 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Trump administration’s tax ‘report’ reads like fan fiction

Fuckin' "stability" is Chem 101. You don't even need to get into valances to understand that shit. But then, business majors don't have to take Chem 101.

    Why would anyone be pro-crypto at this point?

“We’ve always felt that bitcoin, given its properties, is gold 2.0 — it disrupts gold. Gold is scarce, bitcoin is actually fixed. Bitcoin is way more portable and way more divisible. At a $300 billion market cap, it’s certainly seen a lot of price appreciation, but gold is at $6 trillion and if bitcoin disrupting gold is true and it plays out ... then you can see 10 to 20 times appreciation because there is a significant delta still,” he said.

- Cameron Winklevoss

So let's look at this. As of this writing, gold is at $1247/oz. That's a Troy ounce so 1.6cc of gold is worth $1247. If you need to travel with, say, $50k in gold, you're walking around with basically a golf ball of gold. The portability of gold decreases linearly and your likelihood of seizure increases the more of it you carry.

One BTC contains as much value as 15 ouces of gold (which is pretty crazy on the face of it) but a Trezor will hold one BTC or all the BTC in the same space. Getting into and out of BTC is either easier or harder than getting into and out of gold depending on who you are, where you are and how much of it you have. And that right there makes it a tricky calculation.

BTC has more utility for hiding value from the government. How much that utility is worth is the question. Ain't nobody seizing bitcoin at the airport.