{"id":227725,"date":"2017-09-05T07:23:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T05:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=227725"},"modified":"2017-09-05T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T05:27:07","slug":"chill-bitcoins-still-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/227725-chill-bitcoins-still-cool.html","title":{"rendered":"Chill, Bitcoin&#8217;s still cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You all need to just chill out a little. Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin took a hit over the last few days because of China. That has cryptocurrency markets in a panic. But if we channel the deeper sentiment of the true believers, even a massive crackdown on initial coin offerings won&#8217;t be enough to upset a trajectory they&#8217;re convinced can&#8217;t be derailed:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll all be fine. If anything, you should worry about ether, because that&#8217;s the currency that underpins most initial coin offerings. But even then, don&#8217;t sweat it.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin is still going to overthrow the system. Get rid of all those central banks. Do away with fiat currencies. They&#8217;re already dead men walking, anyway. It&#8217;s just a matter of time.\u00a0Ether&#8217;s ethereum technology is going to revolutionize smart contracts and do away with banks, and lawyers and all those bloodsuckers who just wanna steal our money and line their own pockets.<\/p>\n<p>China said ICOs are illegal, and all those projects now need to return the funds they raised. That&#8217;s just a hiccup, it won&#8217;t stop us. Some guy wrote this week that it&#8217;s all about preserving social order. Come on, we all know it&#8217;s about preserving the corrupt global industrial-political system. But we crypto revolutionaries can&#8217;t be defeated.<\/p>\n<p>The rise of cryptocurrencies will herald the new world order, taking back control from the elites. And they don&#8217;t want ICOs to succeed because it cuts vampire squid out of the action. There&#8217;s $139 billion in crypto right now,\u00a0that&#8217;s money they want for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, perhaps\u00a0&#8220;ICOs are the new Nigerian Prince scam. They offer you to get rich, they just need some of your money up front, and all your dreams will come true!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe some people need to lose a lot of money before we all get rich. They&#8217;re just fools anyway, bought the wrong coin.\u00a0Who cares if there are some victims if we eventually hit Lambo parity, right? Then we can show those bankers who&#8217;s boss. We&#8217;ll be driving down main street in our Lamborghinis while they sit recharging their Teslas.<\/p>\n<p>So what if bitcoin is down 15 percent in the last two days. Ethereum dropped 20 percent in a day, IOTA and NEO are down more than 30 percent in the past 24 hours. Let &#8217;em\u00a0fall, man. Another 30\u00a0percent, another 50\u00a0percent. Let it go all the way to the bottom, we&#8217;ll just buy up more. The lower they\u00a0go, the more we&#8217;re gonna buy. Fundamentals don&#8217;t matter, this is the future. Don&#8217;t you see?<\/p>\n<p>Buy with what, you ask. Our fiat currency. Pour our greenbacks and our euros and our Chinese yuan into all the bitcoin and ether we can. Doesn&#8217;t matter if we sold out all our hard currencies last year, we can just borrow.<\/p>\n<p>Some bank&#8217;s gonna lend USD to buy BTC and ETH, no doubt, because they&#8217;re greedy, too. And if they don&#8217;t, we&#8217;ll just start an ICO to raise more coin. Don&#8217;t ask what it&#8217;s gonna be backed by, doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Forget about business models and product development and all that\u00a0old-school talk. That&#8217;s ancient history. We&#8217;re all gonna get rich.<\/p>\n<p>Just chill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Bitcoin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-227729 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Bitcoin-640x349.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Bitcoin-640x349.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Bitcoin-600x327.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Bitcoin-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Bitcoin.jpg 812w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/227605-china-declares-initial-coin-offerings-illegal.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">China declares initial coin offerings illegal<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You all need to just chill out a little. Seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":224650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44696],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-227725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227727,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227725\/revisions\/227727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}