{"id":315289,"date":"2021-05-31T16:55:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T20:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=315289"},"modified":"2021-05-31T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T20:58:06","slug":"why-i-bought-more-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/31\/why-i-bought-more-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I bought (more) bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just consolidated all of my cryptocurrency. Just sold off all of my DOGE, dodge coin, chain link, and DGB (digibyte) and converted it all into bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I do this? My thoughts: first of all, it is easier to remember how much bitcoin I have on the top of my head then track all these other cryptocurrency\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. Second, it will always be the gold standard, just like how Coca-Cola is and will always be the number one soda brand. Or like McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s is the number 1 fast food place, or how Starbucks is and will probably always be the number 1 fast coffee place.<\/p>\n<p>When randomly going on craigslist and looking at Lamborghinis, it seems a lot of people are excepting both US dollars and bitcoin and cryptocurrency for purchases or exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, bitcoin is now so main stream even my mom and Cindy\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs mom know what it is (fake money).<\/p>\n<p>If Nassim Taleb wrote an essay about bitcoin, and Tesla once accepted bitcoin to buy Tesla cars, it is here to stay. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t plan on ever selling my cryptocurrency, just giving it all to Seneca once his 21 years old. I am certain that 20 years from now, bitcoin and cryptocurrency and crypto technology will generally be up. In this generation Z has taught me anything, the future of payments will be your smart phone and digital phone wallet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just consolidated all of my cryptocurrency. Just sold off all of my DOGE, dodge coin, chain link, and DGB (digibyte) and converted it all into bitcoin. Why did I do this? My thoughts: first of all, it is easier to remember how much bitcoin I have on the top of my head then track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gg-to-prov-245-of-317-scaled.jpeg?fit=1707%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315289"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315296,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315289\/revisions\/315296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}