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Old 12-02-2022, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Mrfriendly View Post
Take a $100 bill out of your wallet, look at it and say, “wow I just lost 8% of my money to inflation in only one year.”
If you don’t invest then you just lost money
Look at the value of you bitcoin holdings on January 1, 2022, then look again this morning, look at it and say, "wow i just lost 68.5% of my money before I even consider that I lost another 8% on top of that to inflation in less than one year." If you simply put your money in a money market account you would now be earning close to 4% and you wouldn't have lost 68.5% of your initial investment.