In 2013, one of the earliest Bitcoin conferences was held in San Jose, when one Bitcoin was worth $118. Now, 1 BTC goes for nearly $40,000, and the cryptocurrency industry has minted a new class of millionaires and billionaires with grand aspirations for the industry and the power it wields.
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I’ll never understand how something that is nothing can be so valuable. Bitcoin is nothing. It’s not even real.
Isn't this a reupload?
AWARENESS CAMPAIGN!!!
Hi ,Jim Cramer here I run the CNBC Investing Club I am a financial adviser with over 25years of experience.Are you aware that the banking system is collapsing and exchanges are crashing down due to GLOBAL CRISIS? Soon Paper money and Digital assets will be worthless and you can loose all you have worked for if you don’t backup your finances as soon as possible.. Ask me how!
She has a very nebulous sci-fi way of describing trickle down economics, but alas….
buncha would be trust fund kids found a pipe dream to pump and dump the west
swapping the us dollar for bitcoin just changes who the 1% are. maybe not even.
That money didn't come from nobody; it had to be taken from someone else. There was no wealth creation. So more to the point would be when Bitcoin and other Crypto's made people poor…. Basically a Tulip Mania Fraud Mass Delusion.
All fun and games, until North Korea hacks it off into it's own pocket!
Just a pyramid scam with a transfer of wealth.
Vice is a bitcoin shill
3:55 ✋🏾yo girl,' why u left bro hanging like that…… 👋🏼 … 😆🤣
Terrible title, excellent video and interview
and then they woke up!
I wish charlie shrem would just embrace the fact he has the potential to grow a fantastic beard. Literally men cry that they don't have the genetics for this.
NFT are the modern ponzi pyramiding networking worthless crap
design to be sold to fools and losers all over the world..
24:00
She has a little girl voice, she should use a tone of a grown woman, that valley girl airhead voice does nothing good for her, but she is knowledgeable, and well informed.
Wonder if anyone close to her has ever told her about her taking diction and voice classes or hire a coach. Would she say "That wouldn't be me"?? Strange.
A nerd with money is a super nerd. Andrew tate
Her shoes are great and far more attractive than Crypto…
Bitcoin fixes the world.. that chick is badass.. TAXATION is THEFT..
F the GOV
#ponzinomics
<Thank you for always being constant with the videos regardless of market Bull / Bear. Holders are probably confuse on what to do next but truth is If you stay invested and ignore the market's ups and downs, you'll make a lot of money in the long run, that’s why it’s better to trade than to hodl. I’ve made more than 7.3BTC trading with Axel William, using his method and insights…..
he has his eyes close when answering his lying
Vice employees are total commies..
Her vocal fry makes her sound even more disconnected
My issue with crypto currency, when investing in it, there is no greater economic stimulus that is tied to it…. Unlike investing in a company that in turn can grow and potentially benefit the community around them.
“If you don’t understand, I don’t have time to explain.”
Yeah that’s mighty effective at explaining why your digital grift is any different from the paper money grifts.
The only reason this chick is evangelizing crypto is because she’s spent nearly a decade talking in the same circles haha
This lady has a great handle on greater fool's theory.
Digital grifts. Precious metals are needed for their silicon based electronics and machines. Gtfo calling them, 'just rocks.'
https://youtu.be/xpXfkU89yIY
Why does she come off as so snobby?
3:54 cryptobros in a nutshell
At the end when she explains about being paid in Bitcoin is literally explaining how people are getting paid in regular money
Come back in 10 years time and check the price then. It's not a "Get Rick quick" project.
25:12 did she really just say “…the gospel of Satishi is real…”
While Meltem was laying out her ideas of the possible future of the bitcoin and all the promising good thing it might deliver, I had this innate feeling of me being advertised with another Ponzi scheme.
If there was some early adopters that cared about changing the system and not about become ultra wealthy they are long gone. Anything good gets unfortunately corrupted. Just like this lady.
Crypto market is the new pump and dump scheme, nothing more.
25:00 the moment her own grift is exposed. She may believe her own idealistic spiel, but this right her reveals that she herself has not connected the points between decentralized assets and a better world for everyone.
This the problem with human beings, all these people told you this was gonna change the world. When all it did was create a new group of rich people to replace the current group of rich people we already have lol.
You arent going to he able to correct the woes of humanity as long as human nature is what it is now. It’s impossible, we just aren’t wired for it it . Effort is all we have
Crypto enables people to evade their falling mismanaged currency, even stablecoins are a lifesaver if your currency inflates 50% in a year.😉
Defi enables you to build wealth that dwarfs what the traditional system gives and code makes it fair.
Shiba
She’s literally not answering any serious questions and just goes back to saying that she’s empowering ppl.. lol ok
2:00 my respect for her is at most level now
Still playing around with money and derivatives? Geezzzz….be back in 10.000 years….
Sutoshi might have attended that conference just because a handful or no one knows him/her👀