Do you really have to be a fanatic to talk about Bitcoin? Surely there's space for Everyday Investors to enter the brave new world of digital assets. Catherine Emerson is the host today and Darcy's the guest - enjoy!
Bitcoin is for everyday investors, because when it's not busy completely replacing the global financial system, it's just another thing you can invest in. It shouldn't be a big deal right?
While it's just another investment option, it's quite a different one. I recall watching a documentary on light a few years ago - If my memory serves, physicists don't yet agree on whether or not light is a particle of a wave. In Bitcoin circles, regulators are trying to figure out whether or not it's a currency, or a security. I think it's something entirely different, and we should all take a bit of notice to what's going on in this space.
Even Satoshi Nakamoto him/her/themselves called Bitcoin a peer to peer electronic cash system - but as a medium of exchange only, Bitcoin hasn't really found it's place. It's almost as if it's showing us what it wants to become. So far we can see it's kind of like money, it's kind of like gold, and it appears attract itself to countries and individuals on the fringe, who dream dreams of big changes in the future.
The core argument of Bitcoin is around centralized vs decentralized authority. Will Government and Central Bank control currency in 10 years time, or will that power finally be able to rest on the shoulders of the community instead? I'd be amazed to see this kind of power-transfer happen with ease, however.
There's a deafening silence around Bitcoin at the moment in the financial advice community too, but that will change. We're having to make a choice in this fork in the road. Bitcoin could be the vaccine for a financial pandemic yet to come, or it could just be a waste of time: Choose your side.
Hope you enjoy the show today. Many thanks to Catherine for allowing me to babble on today on her podcast - I hope you get something out of it.
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