The increase in the liquidity of the FED in 2020 due to Covid has generated a turning point in the BTC.
Investors have gone from thinking of BTC as a risky asset to thinking that the risk is not having it, increasing confidence towards it.
Why is it so difficult to understand what Bitcoin involves?
Because it affects various mental models.
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The increase in the liquidity of the FED in 2020 due to Covid has generated a turning point in the BTC.
Investors have gone from thinking of BTC as a risky asset to thinking that the risk is not having it, increasing confidence towards it.
The BTC has gone from $400 to $40k in 5 years, which represents an annual return of 150%, 15 times more than the average stock market return.
This has been one of the largest and fastest creations of wealth in history.
The greater the scarcity of an asset, the greater its value.
As BTC becomes popular, its demand increases, while its supply does not vary. Which makes the price go up.
The BTC is decentralized.
Their trust is not based on the authority of a central bank, but on the cooperation of the population.
The greater the cooperation, the greater the trust and therefore the greater the value.
More and more investors think that the opportunity cost of not having BTC is greater than having it, and therefore they buy it and its price continues to increase.
MOFO thinking increases.
We are social animals.
The more popular BTC is, the more we think we should buy it, and this increases its popularity and its price, making more people want to join and buy.
In network-based systems, the first participant usually has a definite advantage over the followers.
There are other currencies similar to BTC, but its popularity means that the more people are connected to BTC, the more powerful it will be.
Fiat currencies are issued by the agent (central banks), who don't have the same incentives as the principal (the population), devaluing the currency.
Especially relevant in corrupt countries.
Globalization increases the impact of unforeseeable events. Covid in 2020 is a good example. Faced with all these events, safe haven assets increase in value.
The greater the crisis, the greater the value of the safe haven assets.
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Out of curiosity I dug into how NFT's actually reference the media you're "buying" and my eyebrows are now orbiting the moon
Short version:
The NFT token you bought either points to a URL on the internet, or an IPFS hash. In most circumstances it references an IPFS gateway on the internet run by the startup you bought the NFT from.
Oh, and that URL is not the media. That URL is a JSON metadata file
Here's an example. This artwork is by Beeple and sold via Nifty:
https://t.co/TlJKH8kAew
The NFT token is for this JSON file hosted directly on Nifty's servers:
https://t.co/GQUaCnObvX
THAT file refers to the actual media you just "bought". Which in this case is hosted via a @cloudinary CDN, served by Nifty's servers again.
So if Nifty goes bust, your token is now worthless. It refers to nothing. This can't be changed.
"But you said some use IPFS!"
Let's look at the $65m Beeple, sold by Christies. Fancy.
https://t.co/1G9nCAdetk
That NFT token refers directly to an IPFS hash (https://t.co/QUdtdgtssH). We can take that IPFS hash and fetch the JSON metadata using a public gateway:
https://t.co/CoML7psBhF
Short version:
The NFT token you bought either points to a URL on the internet, or an IPFS hash. In most circumstances it references an IPFS gateway on the internet run by the startup you bought the NFT from.
Oh, and that URL is not the media. That URL is a JSON metadata file
Here's an example. This artwork is by Beeple and sold via Nifty:
https://t.co/TlJKH8kAew
The NFT token is for this JSON file hosted directly on Nifty's servers:
https://t.co/GQUaCnObvX
THAT file refers to the actual media you just "bought". Which in this case is hosted via a @cloudinary CDN, served by Nifty's servers again.
So if Nifty goes bust, your token is now worthless. It refers to nothing. This can't be changed.
"But you said some use IPFS!"
Let's look at the $65m Beeple, sold by Christies. Fancy.
https://t.co/1G9nCAdetk
That NFT token refers directly to an IPFS hash (https://t.co/QUdtdgtssH). We can take that IPFS hash and fetch the JSON metadata using a public gateway:
https://t.co/CoML7psBhF
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USC's Interactive Media & Games Division cancels all-star panel that included top-tier game developers who were invited to share their experiences with students. Why? Because there were no women on the
ElectronConf is a conf which chooses presenters based on blind auditions; the identity, gender, and race of the speaker is not known to the selection team. The results of that merit-based approach was an all-male panel. So they cancelled the conference.
Apple's head of diversity (a black woman) got in trouble for promoting a vision of diversity that is at odds with contemporary progressive dogma. (She left the company shortly after this
Also in the name of diversity, there is unabashed discrimination against men (especially white men) in tech, in both hiring policies and in other arenas. One such example is this, a developer workshop that specifically excluded men: https://t.co/N0SkH4hR35
USC's Interactive Media & Games Division cancels all-star panel that included top-tier game developers who were invited to share their experiences with students. Why? Because there were no women on the
ElectronConf is a conf which chooses presenters based on blind auditions; the identity, gender, and race of the speaker is not known to the selection team. The results of that merit-based approach was an all-male panel. So they cancelled the conference.
Apple's head of diversity (a black woman) got in trouble for promoting a vision of diversity that is at odds with contemporary progressive dogma. (She left the company shortly after this
Also in the name of diversity, there is unabashed discrimination against men (especially white men) in tech, in both hiring policies and in other arenas. One such example is this, a developer workshop that specifically excluded men: https://t.co/N0SkH4hR35
