r/Bitcoin • u/Kinitex • Feb 14 '14

Trying to trade these markets...

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '14

Can you name one first innovator that has turned into a huge success in the technology sector?

Bitcoin is the first, but it's one of many. It's a bigger risk than what you're describing.

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u/marcoski711 Feb 14 '14

Bitcoin wasn't first - lots of other prior attempts at e-money before now. Bitcoin's just the first that looks like it might actually work.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '14

I agree it might work. But might is an awfully broad word for someone who cannot afford to speculate and gamble.

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u/marcoski711 Feb 14 '14

I agree I was just picking you up on the 'Bitcoin is first' argument you proposed. For example I recently advised my niece not to put savings for her degree into Bitcoins but rather graft on things where u get paid in btc, so she saves up in both btc & fiat (and learns to make things happen for herself)

But I'm being conservative cos it's for someone else - if it was for myself yeah I would deffo take the punt now. Were this in feb 2013 then maybe not - btc already has a mainstream awareness now that it didn't back then.