Stocks Don’t Truly Discover Price, Bitcoin Fixes This
“The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” Phillip Fisher Bitcoin could care less about its vertical positioning on a chart. But, as emotional monkeys with too much brain for our own good, we get attached to the movements of price. Up and down, back and forth, oscillating like many naturally occurring phenomena, price is supposed to be an equilibrium. As we have gotten used to utilizing equities, real estate and other assets for storage of value, we have begun to necessitate that they must go up in price. Indeed, if....
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