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Peter Schiff: Bitcoin on the Verge of Collapse. This is a translation of an interview with Peter Schiff, a US investor and financial commentator. He describes the imminent collapse of Bitcoin, which will also severely impact investors in Europe and Germany. Write your opinion in the comments. That Bitcoin is on the verge of collapse is now an open secret in the financial industry.
The only questions are when and under what circumstances, who will be hit particularly hard, and what the Fed has to do with it. For Mr. Peter Schiff, one thing is clear: the financial crisis was not triggered by the housing bubble. The Fed inflated the housing bubble with the help of the government, and what ultimately triggered the financial crisis was leverage in the housing market.
We owe this leverage to the banks and investors who lent massive amounts of money to anyone who wanted to buy a home. The catch with these loans, however, was that people ended up paying back almost double the actual value of their property. When real estate prices suddenly plummeted, these loans became unsustainable, ultimately leading to the financial crisis.
Loans aren't a major issue in the Bitcoin business. While there are circumstances under which a few borrow money against their Bitcoin, this is generally rare, and that's a good thing, because if the Bitcoin bubble bursts, the damage will be incalculable. The source of this bubble is and remains the Fed.
It's truly ironic to see how all those caught in the Bitcoin bubble debate all the other bubbles inflated by the Fed, yet overlook their own. It's like seeing the splinter in someone else's eye but missing the beam in your own. Everyone in this crypto bubble seems blind to the connections with the Fed, because they always advised buying Bitcoin since the Fed is constantly printing money and warning of inflation.
But that's precisely the problem: Bitcoin doesn't counteract inflation because it represents nothing and has no real value. Gold In contrast, inflation is counteracted because gold has a historical price relationship to all other commodities such as wheat, corn, soybeans, copper, and oil, and these are the prices that rise during inflation.
If you were to hold paper dollars and pay with them, all these goods would become more expensive, and their purchasing power would decrease. But if you pay with gold, the price of gold will rise in parallel with the true price, and thus purchasing power is not only maintained but can even increase under certain circumstances.
Bitcoin, on the other hand, has no true value, no purpose, nothing. This naturally raises the question: who on earth will even want Bitcoin in the future? Who would exchange their grain, their soybeans, or their copper for your Bitcoin when they could just as easily get gold, as people have been accustomed to for thousands of years?
What impact would the bursting of the dot-com bubble ultimately have on the global economy? Peter Schiff views this scenario with some concern because, although Bitcoin is not a large part of the overall risk bubble, it can still cause considerable collateral damage. Bitcoin is and remains a Bitcoin is a risk asset and is therefore traded much more often against Tesla or Nasdaq stocks than against gold.
If Bitcoin were to crash along with all the other risk assets, that would be a problem. However, if only Bitcoin crashes in isolation, it will only harm those who own Bitcoin. Most of the money invested in Bitcoin exists only on paper. Although Bitcoin has an enormous market capitalization of almost one trillion dollars, this is only its paper value, the so-called estimated value of Bitkom.
So, if prices collapse, people wo n't lose actual money, but only the money they thought they had. This money never really existed because they never sold it. A lot of this paper wealth will therefore simply vanish into thin air. However, those who invested real money in Bitcoin, who bought a lot of Bitcoin, for example, for around $30,000, $40,000, or $50,000, will really lose a lot of money, and the money they lose is the money that other people made by selling this Bitcoin.
The real winners in this Bitcoin bubble are those who got in early and have already cashed out. Incidentally, this is the same with every kind of bubble: those who get in early and are smart enough to sell just before the bubble bursts and the hype dies down emerge as winners. Many people, however, aren't so clever and are dragged down with them.
What options are there to protect your money in such a situation? Of course, tangible assets are a good option, and in the tangible asset sector, there are two big favorites. The first favorite is gold. Gold and silver are the number one crisis currency and are very popular and well- known. But what do you do if, for example, during a crisis, the shops and online stores are closed?
What do you do when everyone wants to buy? Then, of course, there's nothing left to buy, or the prices are extremely inflated at such a time. What do you do if, for example, you need to transport valuables from point A to point B? In extreme cases, perhaps even have to. A million in gold is roughly...
Have you ever carried 27 kg in a heavy backpack for an extended period of time, or do you want to smuggle gold unnoticed onto a plane? I'd really like to suggest you try transporting gold on a plane past customs, but you almost certainly wo n't get through the scanner, and it will be confiscated with near certainty.
You ca n't just carry a million in gold around these days. And another question regarding gold: what about the reporting requirement? Why is there this reporting requirement? Did you know that every gold purchase over €2,000 is reported? And have you ever wondered why you even have to report a gold purchase?
Why does the government want to know that you have gold at home? It's not on any income tax return, and it doesn't generate any interest. There's no capital gains tax that you would have to pay. So why does the government want to know why you own gold? Quite simply, so that in the end, they know exactly where to retrieve it in an emergency.
The second major, seemingly safe haven is real estate, which is very popular as... Real estate investment, but they are aware that property taxes can be used to directly access their real estate at any time. And this has already happened: after the Second World War, all properties were subject to a 50 % property tax based on the assessed value.
For over 30 years, the owners of these properties had to repay this money through increased property taxes. Even now, there are efforts underway to impose higher levies on property owners. But there is a third option that no one thinks about and which is still relatively unknown in Germany – a truly excellent alternative, not digital, backed by real assets, which has proven for centuries that it has preserved and even saved assets.
And if you want to know what it is, simply click on the like button and share this video. I'll gladly tell you what it's all about.
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