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The Problem With Bitcoin Is You

Laura Hackle
9 min readJun 3, 2018

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Recently, a friend asked me if I still owned crypto. Yes, I answered without hesitation, though it’s not nearly as much as I would like. My budget has been tight, and of course it is not growing like it was before.

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My friend had sold his own stack of Ethereum, at a moderate gain from when he’d initially bought in, but a disappointing drop from the all-time-high. The price dropped much further and he was glad he’d sold, but obviously still thinking about it.

I stopped short of advising he buy more soon, at those low prices. What do I know? I am not a financial adviser, so don’t even think about taking my advice on what to buy. I am, however, a specialist in human behavior. So if you want to succeed in crypto, listen up.

I’m going to tell you something that’s been bothering me since I bought my first bitcoin (technically, my first 0.03 BTC). It began as a little fear we’ve all had at least once: “this isn’t real money.” I am convinced now that it is better than money, but there is still a big problem with Bitcoin.

For simplicity, I’ll use “Bitcoin” to refer to cryptocurrencies in general. Bitcoin still rules the markets, as this month proved yet…

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Laura Hackle

I know exactly how the world works, I'm just trying to put it into words