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| 3. From the forums: What if you bought $1,000 worth of the Top Ten Cryptos on January 1st, 2018? That is a question posed to Reddit by @Joe-M-4. After running his experiment it was shown that you would be down 71 percent had you bought $1,000 worth of the top ten cryptos by market cap. This post caused many in the community to tune in and respond. @NomBox said, " I think an important thing for people to take away from this is the opportunity cost of investing in a crypto bear market. If the regular stock market is going up, and crypto has been bleeding for a year, you not only lose on the money you put into crypto, but you miss out on gains from the regular market." @Americanrealism responded, " You're right but unfortunately, opportunity cost is usually revealed in hindsight. When comparing a booming stock market against a falling crypto bear market, there are a ton of investors out there who would look at that and say "Well the stocks have been on a run so they might be running out of gas soon, but crypto has been in a bear market so maybe this has more upside and I can get in on the cheap and realize bigger gains." Just saying the whole Warren Buffett adage of "You want to buy when there's blood in the streets" wins over for a lot of people. That right there is how a lot of people kept throwing fiat money at falling crypto." @JeremyLinForever chimed in with, "Opportunity cost is speculation and luck. Like another poster said, it's basically hindsight. It's becoming increasingly obvious that gold and Bitcoin is inversely correlated with the stock market and interest rates, and you should know that Bitcoin dips when there is pending news of economic prosperity. Because the inverse yield curve has been going on for 3 months now, and people are chasing the gains from the stock market, now is the perfect time to try and acquire as much Bitcoin as you can. Why would you chase the stock market when it's at its historic peak? This won't bode well in a few years..." |     | | 4. Despite the 220% rise in price, 60% of Bitcoin hasn't moved in a year. In Delphi Digital's latest report they discovered that 21.5 percent of Bitcoin hasn't moved in 5 years. UXTO data or Unspent Transaction Output is the length of time an amount of Bitcoin stays in its wallet and was what Delphi used to track these numbers. The report said, "The active portion of Bitcoin supply, which we categorize as the coins that have moved within the last three months, is beginning to slightly increase. The new sellers are actually mostly individuals who've been holding for three-to-six months." - THE NEXT WEB via GIPHY | | | | | | All Microsoft Podcast The Windows Weekly podcast covers everything Microsoft. Learn what's happening with Windows, Microsoft Office, Enterprise, Azure, Xbox, plus hardware reviews with hosts Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott. Subscribe to Windows Weekly on Your Favorite Podcatcher 
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