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It's not possible to sustain a magic money box where everyone can put money in and get more out.

Many people get that far in their thinking, realise cryptocurrency is a bad investment, and leave it there.

Bitcoin IS money. Record high numbers of people are onboarding to bitcoin and not coming back to fiat. It’s just as much an “investment” as the US dollar is.

The S&P 500 would argue otherwise

Right, 500 of the largest public companies in the largest economy, is equivalent to a magic money box. It's not like they collectively have hundreds of billions in revenue or anything.

>The S&P 500 would argue otherwise

As a matter of fact, every scarce asset with steady demand would argue otherwise.

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