Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Bitcoin: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?


THUMBS UP
Later this year, the 23,000 companies that use Fidelity to administer their retirement plans will be able to offer Bitcoint as as investment option.

“There is a need for a diverse set of products and investment solutions for our investors,” says a Fidelity spokesman. “We fully expect that cryptocurrency is going to shape the way future generations think about investing.”

THUMBS DOWN
Years ago, tech writer Glenn Fleishman thought cryptocurrency might be among the most exciting and important innovations in technology and finance. His thinking has since evolved to provisional cynicism.

"Cryptocurrency is on everyone’s lips,” he writes, "but it should be in no one’s virtual pockets. An overhyped form of imaginary value storage, it has all the disadvantages of cash, suffers from all the volatility of an overhyped penny stock, and consumes more power than a mid-sized European nation. Although it has been vaunted as untraceable, anonymous, and beyond the reach of governments, none of that is true. Law enforcement agencies have used cryptocurrency to take down crime ringsstop people from exchanging child sexual abuse material, and seize massive amounts of Bitcoin and other currencies."

Personally, I think NFTs are a speculative fad that possess useful features. Bitcoin is a speculative fad that ...?