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sothischickshe · 4 years

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S3 wishlist

Bottle ep! Bottle ep! Bottle ep!!!! (like yea primarily cos I want Beth and rio to actually fricking talk but also the pace of this show can be insane n it could use some room to breathe! I'd love it if Beth and rio were trapped with an audience, say stan, demon n jt)

Beth and Dean divorced and no longer living together

Beth and stan (and Annie?) hanging out being best bros

Mar(r)y pat is now a successful crime novelist putting her experience to good use and she's off on a book tour

Boomer dies, horribly

Stan has a job he likes even if it's not what he thought he wanted

Stoned annie

Musical episode ft lots of piano playing

Beth attempting to seduce rio and getting shot down

Some kinda perspective play again

Beth and rio actually talk, but they're hammered and peak loony

If it's not unbearably stupid, some kind of explanation for how rio knew about Jeff's body in the garden, wtf was going on with that idiotic kidnapping, what the hell Beth said that wasn't panties or underwear, whether rio understands why they threw the wrong body away, why rio thought ah yes murdering a fed at my home (also asking someone to do it when they know they're on camera cos I just told them that) would be a good plan

Literally no plots about phones, I don't believe the writers understand them

If Beth tries to bribe someone again, annie and/or Ruby tackle her to the ground and scream in her face

Nothing but good things for the Hills, with the possible exception that I don't mind Ruby facing a mild inconvenience if I get to see Beth and stan teaming up to solve it, being best bros and generally yelling 'not to my wife!' in harmony

More Amber!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beth to be so done with Dean that annie (and Ruby and stan) are allowed to be as mean as they want about and to him

Annie and Nancy are in love

Beth has some other love interest/s (and preferably gets to go on dates with) - not rio and ewww not dean

The plot not just being one step forwards two steps backwards with regards to the girls making bank. It's exhausting and repetitive. By the end of the season I want it to be more like oh no we're in too deep and can't get out, not whoopsie guess who lost all our money again lol!

The return of big michael

Beth to recruit some chick to their crew but to model her behaviour on rio (cos what other inspo has she got?) like standing too close and staring thinking she's being intimidating and the chick to be like I am very uncomfortable please stop workplace sexually harassing me

Rio's snarkasm turned up past 11, a lot of 'I thought you'd never ask', 'I didn't know you cared' etc

Beth to be ACTING all intimidated by rio but not to be able to bite back from correcting him on something or serving some snark right back and him to find it kinda funny but then harden it up

Beth dealing with her guilt and trauma and not be fine 0.5 seconds after the shooting

Rio pretending to be a ghost even if it's just for 0.5 seconds. Especially if he makes the noises

NO NOAH

Beth sarcastically calling rio honey (or similar)

After turning Beth down in no uncertain terms earlier in the season and generally acting totally unaffected, rio stumbling upon her when she's really gross (covered in mud or blood or both) and being really into her

Eventual Beth/rio Turner takedown team up (or Beth/gretchen!!!)

Some kinda rio, Ruby, Annie team up - maybe beth is missing, everyone snarks?

Generally to feel like rio's character has motivations he's acting on, rather than being a chess piece pushed around to make the girls do things

Confirmation of offscreen Beth/rio banging could be hilarious depending on how the season plays out

Beth being defensive and/or protective of rio - dream would be she pops out of the shadows to shoot an antagonist in the knee cap when he's in trouble

Rio not letting the fact that she shot him go for even half a second, bringing it up no matter what

Some weird awkward scene with them staring at their reflections together

Breakfast dish banging

Danny gets a personality

Sadie and Beth hang time, generally the girls interacting with each others' kids

The Beyoncé concert

No long hiatuses during the season, I'll have an anxiety induced breakdown

More hipster hatted barman

Confirmation that rio has started a terrible indie record label

More backstory for everyone, but particularly I wanna understand the sitch with Beth and Annie's parents

Mirroring the beth fantasising about rio smashing stuff scene, rio fantasising about Beth (and being v annoyed that he's still doing that)

Beth holding Kenny accountable if he's doing shady stuff

Dean gets punched in the face at least once, preferably by Beth but I'll take stan or the girls with pleasure

Beth continues to smash stuff when angry, confused, sleepy or just alive. Would love if rio stumbles upon her doing so!

#Assuredly other stuff too #Nbc good girls #TV #Predictions #Kinda

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cryptnus-blog · 5 years

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The Cryptocurrency Paradox And Why Crypto Is Failing

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The Cryptocurrency Paradox And Why Crypto Is Failing

The Bitcoin BubbleJay Adkisson

An entire industry exists to take advantage of cryptocurrencies. From the creators of individual cryptocurrencies, to folks who sell software apps such as wallets, to companies that are attracting venture capital for vaguely-described synergies involving the retail use of cryptocurrency, to hedge funds that invest directly in cryptocurrency to those who put on conferences on how to get rich on cryptocurrency, literally billions of dollars worldwide have poured into crypto.

Yet, cryptocurrency is failing, badly. The vast majority of cryptocurrency have already ended up listed at http://www.deadcoins.com and even the flagship best-of-class Bitcoin as of this writing has lost 80% of its value in the last year. Despite the continuing hype for crypto, seemingly every day makes it look worse as both an idea and an investment.

To understand why crypto is failing, it is necessary to understand what crypto isn’t and is.

Cryptocurrency Is Not A Revenue-Producing Asset. Unlike a stock whose value can be determined by earnings, cryptocurrency provides no income stream to its owner. While some owners like to think of themselves as “owning the technology”, nothing could be further from the truth since they earn no royalties if somebody else is using that technology. Because crypto has no earnings, that means it has no P/E ratio by which a rational price can be established. Crypto isn’t even as good as a zero-coupon bond, however, since it has no maturity date when principal will be returned.

Cryptocurrency Is Not A Commodity. A commodity is usually something that is consumed, leading to demand for more. Oil and wheat are examples; once a stock of those is consumed, another must be supplied. Cryptocurrency is not a commodity. There is no demand for cryptocurrency in the consumption sense, and an individual unit of cryptocurrency is not destroyed by a transaction but can be reused over and over such that most demand can be met by existing stocks.

Cryptocurrency Is Not A Store Of Value. Some pundits have claimed that crypto is a “store of value”, meaning that if you put $1,000 of value into crypto today, then in the future you will be able to get your $1,000 of value back by selling the crypto. That’s not the way it works in reality, however, because cryptocurrency is so volatile. As mentioned, the flagship Bitcoin has lost 80% of its value in a year, which in retrospect doesn’t seem like a particularly good way to store value.

Cryptocurrency Is A Currency . . . Crypto is currency, meaning a mechanism of exchange. In the past, humankind has used everything from pretty seashells to beaver pelts to rare metal coins to (now) little pieces of paper with uninteresting pictures on them as units of exchange. At the end of the day, this is all that crypto is — a unit of exchange that does not exist in the material world but instead exists only in binary code on computer ledgers somewhere. If this sounds high-tech and really innovative, then you’d better consider that we’ve had such payment systems for years in the form of debit and credit cards, wire-transfers, and services such as PayPal.

The difference is that those older systems dealt in the local governmental currency, such that a Nebraskan buying beer with a credit card did it with dollars, or if there was an international wire-transfer from Moscow there was a conversion from rubles to dollars, etc. With cryptocurrency, the currency itself is predominantly used so long as the user can find a seller who takes that cryptocurrency, although it should be noted that Bitcoin ATMs dispense cash in the local currency. The point being that cryptocurrency, as its name suggests, is in fact currency and not something else.

. . . But An Unprotected Currency. There is a reason that some nations have relatively stable currencies such as those found in the industrialized nations: The governments of those nations have strong central banks (in the U.S., the Federal Reserve Bank for example) which keep those currencies stable by variously expanding or contracting the money supply, guiding government economic policy decisions, and using a variety of methods — including criminal prosecution — to prevent currency manipulation.

By contrast, nations such as Venezuela, the Sudan, etc., have no meaningful central banks and thus their currencies are extremely volatile, sometimes changing their value relative to the stable currencies by the hour. These nations are subject to what amounts to “currency anarchy” and have no effective weapons in their financial arsenals to combat price manipulation.

Cryptocurrency falls into this later category. With cryptocurrency, there is no governing body to expand or limit the money supply to meet changing events, and utterly no mechanism to prevent widespread price manipulation. This is the primary reason why cryptocurrencies are so volatile — like a nuclear reactor without control rods, once a cryptocurrency is launched there is no way to control it until it finally burns itself out.

This is also why cryptocurrency adoption by merchants has dramatically lagged predictions: What merchant wants to accept much of a currency that is like a Venezuelan bolivar that can go down in minutes? Oh sure, a few merchants have thought that it is neat to hang a sign on their window that says “We accept Bitcoin!” because that sounds kind of hip, and, who knows, maybe somebody will make a large purchase someday with crypto. But taking in a bunch of it everyday and risk losing a bunch of money on wild price swings? No way.

Cryptocurrency As A Speculative Investment

By far the most purchases of cryptocurrency have been raw speculation; investors buying particular cryptos in the hope that they would dramatically appreciate in value. This phenomena was illustrated in the Great Crypto Boom of December, 2018, when Bitcoin shot up in value from $1,000 per Bitcoin on January 1, 2017 to $19,783.06 in mid-December of that year.

During the 2017 bubble, many ordinary folks who were smart enough to sell became instant multi-millionaires and, just like the gold-rush days of old, many other ordinary folks started taking second mortgages on their houses and cashing out their credit cards and IRAs to spin the Wheel of Crypto Fortune and buy in, which further accelerated the price until that bubble finally burst and those belated investors were wiped out.

The point being that few, if any, of those investors bought into Bitcoin because they had faith that it would be the “currency of tomorrow”, but rather they just wanted to get rich, and quick. But even as the Bitcoin bubble was building, other promoters of their own cryptocurrencies were out pitching their deal as the next big thing. It is these other currencies — nearly all of which eventually failed entirely — ended up on deadcoins.com where you can read their obituaries. The other cyptos (called “altcoins”) often lacked any usage whatsoever and had no merchants that would accept them in payment. But folks bought in because they were speculating on their values rapidly appreciating just as Bitcoin had done. But this is not to overlook that Bitcoin itself has value only because of the promise of future appreciation, i.e., the price of Bitcoin is driven primarily by speculation.

The Cryptocurrency Paradox

All this now brings us to The Cryptocurrency Paradox:

Crypto has value based on its usage to buy things; because of that value, most owners of crypto do not want to use it to buy things; therefore, crypto is not widely used to buy things and thus has no value other than related to relatively minimal usage.

In other words, the sine qua non of a particular cryptocurrency is based on the mutual concepts of “acceptance” (how many merchants will take the crypto in exchange for goods or services) and “usage” (how many owners are spending their crypto in exchange for goods or services).

Whatever the rates of acceptance, the problem is that because crypto owners expect their crypto to appreciate in value, they are holding it as an investment and not using it. This is supported, among other things, by a study reported in Reuters that usage of Bitcoin had gone down approximately 80% in January to September, 2018.

Thus, the paradox: Crypto investors buy and hold crypto because they want their crypto to appreciate in value, but unless they use their crypto the value will not go up. To the contrary, unless the crypto is used, the value of the crypto will keep falling, and investors will start unloading their investment to avoid further losses. Repeating this cycle leads to the inevitable “death cycle” that is so common to finance, and ends badly for the crypto and any remaining investors. This seems to be what is happening to Bitcoin now.

Because of this paradox, no cryptocurrency is likely to be successful until investors can be persuaded to actively use their crypto, and not simply hold on to it and speculate that it goes up in value.

But, again, there are significant barriers to increasing usage not the least of which is crypto’s high volatility, and the possibility (if not likelihood) of widespread price manipulation. Here, acceptance plays a role: What large company wants to hold on its books an asset that can fluctuate by 10% in an hour, or which can be pumped-and-dumped by bad actors? But even beyond this, the fundamental problem is that there is no means available (such as taxes) to incentivize investors to quit holding for speculation and actually use large amounts of crypto for mercantile activities.

It is largely because of this paradox that leading economists such as Nouriel Roubini and many others have predicted that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will sooner or later return to a value near zero. With Bitcoin in a long slide, and the handful of remaining altcoins having one foot already in the grave, it is probably more likely than not that such will be end result for all cryptocurrencies unless some really bright person can figure out how to solve this paradox.

In the meantime, there will certainly be peaks and valleys in the price of Bitcoin, and the volatility is likely to get even worse which will drive down usage as a currency even further. But something quite spectacular will have to occur to break the paradox and stop Bitcoin and the remaining altcoins from entering the death cycle. One this is absolutely certain, however, which is that for the next few months investing in cryptocurrency should be strictly limited to those willing and able to lose the totality of their investment because that is exactly what will be at risk.

As things go now, it is looking more and more like the final procession of crypto funerals will occur in 2019. In that case, the epitaph written on the tombstone of Bitcoin and the altcoins might well be that phrase by which Jefferson Davis in his later years characterized the failure of the Confederacy: “Died of a Theory.”

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