Ha! The story is of course a jest, but there's no reason why you can't look at it that way. A cup is either half empty or half full.

That's not really true per se. That's the chart of USD/BTC so the inverse of BTC/USD which has dropped significantly in the past few days so of course the inverse has shown an increase.

For a more accurate picture of the dollar I track the UUP ETF which pegs it's value to the dollars exchange rate over a basket of currencies. (Which btw has been on a steady downtrend in the past 6 months, definitely not doubling everyday)

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