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President of Mpls Fed Mention: “Leave Bitcoin For The Toy Collectors”

Rick Delafont
Rick Delafont
4 years ago
2 mins read
minneapolis

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Speaking at a Town Hall Forum today in South Dakota, the Minneapolis Fed President had some condescension for proponents of Bitcoin. Neel Kashkari told the assembly:

“If you live in any modern advanced economy I would stick with the dollar I would stick with the yen and leave bitcoin for the, you know, toy collectors.”

For the Ohio-born, former aerospace engineer, Bitcoin is an immature investment and should be avoided by those serious about what they do with their money. Despite recent negative price movements, the enormous growth in the price of this “toy” called Bitcoin has drawn plenty of attention from Wall Street. This has prompted the recent creation of futures markets surrounding the emerging asset class. There are now several of these products offered by a variety of traditional trading centres. These include the CME Group and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. There is also strong sentiment that a cryptocurrency ETF will follow at some point during 2018.

Despite the attention Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are receiving, Kashkari remains unconvinced:

“I don’t really think of bitcoin as a currency. I think of it as a novelty. The idea that these virtual currencies are ever going to compete with the dollar is hard to fathom.”

For the Federal banker, the major issue with Bitcoin is that anyone can create their own version. He acknowledged that there was a scarcity of Bitcoin itself and that this was similar to gold. However, “the problem is the barrier to entry for anybody creating another version of Bitcoin is zero.”

Kashkari ceded that in countries with less political stability than they enjoy in the US, a virtual currency that remains entirely independent of the government could be useful for the people. However, in the States, the public is supposed to trust the government, ergo there should be nothing at all to fear from them having complete control of the monetary supply. Well, what were you expecting from a central banker? A turkey voting for Christmas isn’t long for this world, after all.

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Rick Delafont
Rick Delafont

Rick Delafont

Based in Europe, Rick has written about the cryptocurrency industry since 2016. He was first drawn to Bitcoin as a means of payment but quickly became fascinated by its wider potential implications. His interests lie in the political, economic, and social impact of the unfolding digital asset revolution.

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  1. Richard Darling says:
    7 years ago

    Ummm we are supposed to trust the government???? No body had the balls to ask him why the constitution was made in the first place… the time is almost up for these assholes

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  2. Jon Varley says:
    7 years ago

    Bankers are just plain scared that block chain will break the chains that trap their slaves. They love to tell stories like of how the evil drug lords use crypto to launder money…. Hmmmmm HSBC 2012 in was just doing that. Sure that other banks are still at it. I think they just are pissed their business is going elsewhere.

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  3. unbubbleslayr says:
    7 years ago

    I can create an identical auction site like ebay and it will have zero chance of even remotely competing with them. I could advertise, have lower fees….well, it’s all being done with other sites and no one can come close to ebay’s numbers.

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  1. Richard Darling says:
    7 years ago

    Ummm we are supposed to trust the government???? No body had the balls to ask him why the constitution was made in the first place… the time is almost up for these assholes

    Reply
  2. Jon Varley says:
    7 years ago

    Bankers are just plain scared that block chain will break the chains that trap their slaves. They love to tell stories like of how the evil drug lords use crypto to launder money…. Hmmmmm HSBC 2012 in was just doing that. Sure that other banks are still at it. I think they just are pissed their business is going elsewhere.

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  3. unbubbleslayr says:
    7 years ago

    I can create an identical auction site like ebay and it will have zero chance of even remotely competing with them. I could advertise, have lower fees….well, it’s all being done with other sites and no one can come close to ebay’s numbers.

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