Peter Schiff
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Even though I tell them not to.
But a lot of the things that I say, for example, as to why you would want to own gold, they'll just apply that to Bitcoin.
Yes, I agree.
Everything Peter says, and I'm buying Bitcoin because I believe what he's saying.
No, I don't think there are any characteristics.
No, because Bitcoin is nothing.
It has nothing in common with a physical metal, a valuable, precious metal.
The only thing that Bitcoin...
has in common with gold is if you look at gold's monetary properties, apart from the fact that it's a store of value, which Bitcoin can't copy at all because there's no value there to store.
People use salt as money.
That's where the word salary comes from.
But cattle has been money.
There's a lot of weird commodities that have been money.
But what makes gold
better money is its portability, its durability, its divisibility, its fungibility.
Bitcoin has those characteristics.
It is fungible.
It is divisible.
It is portable.
It is durable, right?