Unfortunately though, the "mainstream" we are currently achieving isn't the kind of "mainstream" we're looking for. Instead of the new people looking at bitcoin as a method of payment, they mainly look at it only as an investment. Which is depressing if you ask me. It's pretty much almost nothing but lambos now. I fear the day that bitcoin's price becomes stable for months, as the dumb money might all cash out.
INVESTMENT is long term, the assholes day trading bTC don't give a shit about BTC, they're just trying to scam other suckers and bail,
It's not investing, its speculating, its betting, its playing the horses,
2017 BTC went parabolic, all things that go parabolic come back down, there is NOTHING new under the sun in human history.
BTC has too many failings to win long term, its a case study and nothing more, just a matter of time before BTC is broken, and blows to bits in the wind, long term serious thinking should focus on BTC 2.0, or 3.0
DUMB MONEY can't cash out, pretty much all they can do is flip-flop in & out of BTC and play alt's and slowly the fee's eat away any 'wealth' that moron may have had,
A real winner, who cashes out at a 'bank' will quickly get a knock on the door by the 'tax-man', and see that he owes 150% over his winnings, this is the nature of the tax collector.
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Smart ppl accumulate BTC by mining post 2009, and HODL, and wait for US DOLLAR to collapse, then move to friend BTC government where that wealth can be spent, for now crypt is a waiting/hodling game.
Using FIAT to buy crypto's is stupid, because as soon as you BUY cryptos, the GOV knows U R a HODLER, best for GOV to never see u on its gaydar
