>>24116866
>crypto's highly volatile boiling pot
The days of 90% drops are over. Finito. Look at the March crash and compare Bitcoin to other equities. It moved less than many. Most of the money sold was held by people that held it for less than a month. Coinbase reported that all throughout the dump, there was an unending mass of buyers.
Bitcoin is a cockroach, if a country outlaws it another will allow it. It's basic financial arbitrage. Also VPN's are ubiquitous these days. The Fed knows they can't kill it just like gold or liquor. Therefore what's happening now is the laws are tightening. Exchanges have been shook up recently, stablecoins are being dissected. This is a crackdown not to outlaw Bitcoin, but to legitimize it.
Jerome Powell just spoke about Libra and stablecoins to the IMF - they're on the way. This puts the spotlight on Bitcoin and makes it the de facto store of value. Central banks still wield unbelievable power through their fiat system, they don't need to outlaw Bitcion, and the optimistic truth is that there are people that understand this. (((They))) aren't all bad. Brian Brooks, Heath Tarbert, Gary Gensler, more people are moving to key positions that understand that Bitcoin is a net benefit.
I'll be retired at 40 thanks to the last boom and bust cycle, I was able to afford real estate cheaply, thanks to those who lost everything during the great recession.