Mr Money Mustache skrev nyligen om Bitcoin-fenomenet och jag tycker hans åsikt verkar vettig:
"I’ve been watching this bitcoin situation for a few years, assuming it would just blow over.
But a collective insanity has sprouted around the new field of “cryptocurrencies”, causing an irrational gold rush worldwide. It has gotten to the point where a large number of financial stories – and questions in my inbox – ask whether or not to “invest” in BitCoin.
Let’s start with the answer: no. You should not invest in Bitcoin.
The reason why is that it’s not an investment; just as gold, tulip bulbs, Beanie Babies, and rare baseball cards are also not investments.
These are all things that people have bought in the past, driving them to absurd prices, not because they did anything useful or produced money or had social value, but solely because people thought they could sell them on to someone else for more money in the future.
When you make this kind of purchase – which you should never do – you are speculating. This is not a useful activity. You’re playing a psychological, win-lose battle against other humans with money as the sole objective. Even if you win money through dumb luck, you have lost time and energy, which means you have lost.
Investing means buying an asset that actually creates products, services or cashflow, such as a profitable business or a rentable piece of real estate, for an extended period of time. An investment is something that has intrinsic value – that is, it would be worth owning from a financial perspective, even if you could never sell it."
Källa: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/15/should-i-invest-bitcoin-dont-mr-money-moustache
Både Mr Money Mustache och Warren Buffet gör skillnad på investering och spekulation. De menar att icke-produktiva handelsvaror som guld, valutor eller Bitcoins inte är investeringar utan spekulation på vad andra köpare kommer värdera handelsvaran i framtiden.
Är det korrekt att kalla det en investeringstråd? Är det inte mer passande att kalla det för en spekulationstråd? Vad är avkastningen från Bitcoins eller Alt-coins? Jag förväntade mig en diskussion om att investera i AMD, nVidia eller andra bit/alt-coin-relaterade företags aktier.
