{"id":24562,"date":"2017-08-03T19:01:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24562"},"modified":"2017-08-03T19:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T00:01:20","slug":"bitcoin-gold-and-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24562","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin, Gold and Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bitcoin, Gold and Silver <\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Precious Metals Supply and Demand Report <\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s it. It\u2019s the final straw. One of the alternative investing newsletters had a headline that screamed, \u201cBitcoin Is About to Soar, But You Must Act by August 1 to Get In\u201d. It was missing only the call to action \u201ccall 1-800-BIT-COIN now! That number again is 800 B.I.T..C.O.I.N.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Bitcoin, daily. In terms of the gains recorded between the lows of 2009 and the recent highs (from less eight hundredths of a US cent per bitcoin, or $1 = 1,309.2 BTC, the first officially recorded value of BTC, to $3,000 per bitcoin, or $1 = 0.000333333 BTC), the bubble in bitcoin by now exceeds every historical precedent by several orders of magnitude, including the infamous Tulipomania and Kuwait\u2019s Souk-al-Manakh bubble. In percentage terms BTC has increased by about 392,760,000% in dollar terms (more than 392 million percent) since its launch eight years ago. Comparable price increases have otherwise only occurred in hyperinflation scenarios in which the underlying currency was repudiated as a viable medium of exchange. Our view regarding its prior non-monetary use value and hence its potential<\/em> to become money differs slightly from that presented by Keith below. We will post more details on this soon, for now we only want to point out that we believe there is room for further debate on this point. [PT] \u2013 click to enlarge.<\/p>\n

Is it about to go up? Maybe. We don\u2019t know. And everyone should by now be skeptical of all \u201crocket to take off on XYZ date\u201d claims. Between them, surely these newsletters have predicted thousands of the past zero blastoffs of gold and silver since 2011.<\/p>\n

We have discussed bitcoin in the past, to argue that it is not money (a video here<\/a>, and articles here<\/a> and here<\/a>). Bitcoin is not money because it is not a good<\/em>. It\u2019s just a number in a database. Money is a kind of good (genus). The most marketable kind (differentia).<\/p>\n

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Bitcoin, Gold and Silver Precious Metals Supply and Demand Report That\u2019s it. It\u2019s the final straw. One of the alternative investing newsletters had a headline that screamed, \u201cBitcoin Is About to Soar, But You Must Act by August 1 to Get In\u201d. It was missing only the call to action \u201ccall 1-800-BIT-COIN now! That number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5728,4174,374,7957,536,647,730],"class_list":["post-24562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-acting-man","tag-bitcoin","tag-gold","tag-keith-weiner","tag-money","tag-precious-metals","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24563,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24562\/revisions\/24563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}