Hindsight is 50/50. It's really easy to say you'd have become wealthy if you bought it back when it was a buck a coin in 09 or whenever. I think we'll see stability in BTC as time goes on. No more crashed of massive proportion, but also no huge gains. Traditional banks are looking into vesting into BTC, which is good, but BTC advocates don't like that. Thumbs up to that young lad. I hope he's put away some money in case things go south.
In 2008 the after the stock market and housing markets crashed the rebound started. Houses have gone up 2-3 times since then. Stock market was around 8000 after the crash and this month it hit over 22,000. We are most likely due for a correction now as we have climbed for 8-9 years now. While stocks rose and housing prices rose people for the last 8-9 years thought it would drop and everyone who shorted over the last 8-9 years lost money.
Yes, thank you for reiterating my past posts on the issue. Crypto is what one year in? There have been several crashes. The housing bubble barely affected the immediate market here. My real estate holdings except a few in NorCal saw growth in value. The housing and land market in some areas in the country will quickly rebound from any crash due to the area's natural qualities.
This is true, if the market is being broken down per county basis. California real estate including land did suffer, but bounced back. I can't say the same for land out of state. I bought land out of state after the bubble for cheap, and it has yet to return to pre-bubble pop values. A poor investment on my part.
These two are good buys alsoWe have the same friend.
A friend, but more like a "cousin" of mine, recommended I invest about $40K in gold ages ago. I had nothing to lose at the time as I was financially sound, and gold is gold. It was and still is the best investment I've made in precious metals aside from buying coins, new and centuries old. These days I'm extremely careful about buying old coins, money or paintings in case it violates antiquities laws or the painting was stolen. 
Keep the money. It may explode in the future and you can retire. Teachers don't get paid enough. Oh, but the schools surely need a $5M football field.
Impressive. I think we're going to see major banks take more and more control of the currency, pushing out private companies like Bitmain. They simply have more assets to cash in and go big. Ideally, BTC was developed to get away from banks, but a system with little regulation reminds me a little about Kye loans and the Hawala brokers. Both used more or less for crime.
I've found Grant's Observer to be worth the hefty sub fee.
That seems to be in line with what I'm seeing now with our 'local' schools. Very different in my day. Very much like universities and the sciences departments getting the newest and greatest, while departments like history get shafted.
High Schools are beginning to look more like a Sports Arena these days. Classrooms are locker rooms.
New record high for Bitcoin
