is quite hard if not impossible to buy bitcoins without kyc/aml not to say all transactions will stay forever, I think people who buy bitcoins buy for inflationary risks.
what's the difference between bitcoin and gold? if the world goes to shit, you won't be able to eat gold, the gold industrial use is just a myth, there is the jewelry use, but still the same deal store of value, if bitcoin is a bubble then gold is a hundreds of years bubble.
I'm my country twice until now, the government remained without money, and started printing like crazy, people's cash economies, were melted, or course people would say, that real estate, gold, stocks, but I'm not talking here about so much money, I'm talking about 6 months living expenses for example, bitcoin would have been a great use for this kind of savings, we don't have stocks here, gold is impossible to buy, and no safe to store, etc. If think about there isn't a lot of difference between gold and bitcoin, the main thing is immutability, gold industrial use is a myth.
I wish I would be holding a lot of coins... even if bitcoins drops 50% is still worth a lot, I know the privileged elitist HN guys hate it for some reason, while probably is saving lives as we speak in Venezuela, but my tone is probably due experience dealing with Chinese, and their efficiency in farming every bit of value form everything they touch, for example their recently started to farm pubg.
great, then I'll buy the whole 16 millions of it, I could not care less about China, I think their presence in bitcoin is bad, as in everything they do, they are not consumers, they are locusts, they are in it only to profit, to make money, I dealt a bit with chinese, eg. wow gold and is a simmilar story, they did more harm to wow with they gold selling than good.
Ukraine's invasion also encouraged countries to get nuclear armed, Ukraine gave their nuclear weapons in exchange for US/UK guaranties which proved to be worthless, another Obama legacy, a pussy of a president.
who decides what value is? you? if it would not provide value people would not be using/buying/mining, "one man's trash is another man's treasure", for a guy in Venezuela bitcoin can be the difference between life and death..
demand & offer, if the energy were more expensive, fewer would mine and the difficulty would drop, I wish I could mine on my low powered laptop, but if you want to raise the pitch forks against bitcoin, on the same logic, we could stop playing computer games, watch movies/shows/tv etc, even using modern phones, the old nokias that lasted a week one one charge would do fine.
npm and the huge number of dependencies scares me, I remember in WordPress plugins would get hijacked and you would get an update that backdoors or inserts some vulnerability, other than this, I spend 3-4 hours 2 days ago, trying to merge 2 json datasets by doing some averages, and simply could not do it, the numbers were in string format, and it would work for some and get NaN for other, or would just concatenate them as string, I was working in typescript and using "number" was concatenating, weirdest thing ever, I just gave up.
Just recently I saw a reddit thread about a black web developer women being paid much less than her coworkers, she overhead her boss talking on the phone about hiring another guy because they have a lot of work, talking about how he affords it, because he pays her so little and he can get away with it, because "what she's going do", "who is going to hire her" a black developer woman.
you're a young white male? of course you won't understand, "keep improving yourself" what an elitist thing to say from the IT bubble.. most profession plateau, it doesn't matter if you have 10 or 20 years of experience, even in IT it doesn't.