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  • RED
    Very Senior Member - OFC
    • Aug 2009
    • 11689

    #1

    The Bitcoin explained

    This is a bit too long but it does explain a lot:
    How Crypto Currency works ? an analogy in layman?s terms.

    Not long ago a merchant found a lot of monkeys that lived near a certain Village. One day he came to the Village saying he wanted to buy these monkeys. He announced that he would buy the monkeys at $100 each.

    The Villagers thought that this man must be crazy. How can somebody buy stray monkeys at $100 each?

    Still some People caught some monkeys and gave it to this merchant and he gave $100 for each monkey.

    This news spread like wildfire and People caught monkeys and sold them to the merchant.

    After a few days, the merchant announced that he will buy monkeys at $200 each.

    The lazy villagers also ran around to catch the remaining monkeys. They sold the remaining monkeys at $200 each.

    The merchant then announced that he will buy monkeys for $500 each.

    The villagers start to lose sleep. They caught six or seven monkeys which was all that was left and got $500 each.

    The Villagers were waiting anxiously for the next announcement.

    Then the merchant announced that he is going on holiday for a week, but when he returns, he will buy monkeys at $1000 each! He also said that his employee will be in charge, and would take care of the monkeys he bought pending his return.

    The Merchant went on holiday.

    The Villagers were frantic and very sad as there were no more monkeys left for them to sell at $1000 each as was promised by the Merchant.

    Then the Merchant?s Employee contacted them and told them that he would secretly sell them some monkeys at $700 each.

    The news spread like wildfire. As the Merchant promised on his return that he would buy monkeys at $1000 each, they would achieve a $300 profit for each monkey. The next day the Villagers queued up near the Monkey Cage.

    The Employee sold all the monkeys at $700 each. The rich bought monkeys in large lots. The poor borrowed money from money lenders and bought the rest of the monkeys.

    The Villagers took care of their monkeys and waited for the Merchant to return. However nobody came! Then they ran to find the Employee. However he was not to be found.

    The Villagers then realized that they have been duped buying the useless stray monkeys at $700 each, and were now unable to sell them.

    Now monkeys are called Bitcoins.
  • Allen
    Moderator
    • Sep 2009
    • 10583

    #2
    Most all stocks are manipulated but a person can get rich off of them if they catch the timing right. Unfortunately because of this it is sometimes more of a gamble when investing.

    As far as the Bitcoins go, a lot of people made money. Many are now losing money too. It would have been nice to have known to buy when they were a microscopic portion of one cent each.

    Some say that cyber currency, cryptocurrency, sometimes called crypto-currency or crypto is the money of the future because our money now is backed by nothing anyway and the government wants to stop minting coins and printing bills. The reason is so the govt can track every purchase made since cc's would have to be used. Anything sold would be taxed.

    At this point I don't know if crypto money can be traced or not.

    As far as the story above goes, at least the villagers got rid of the monkey's for a short time.

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    • dogtag
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2009
      • 14985

      #3
      I can explain it in far fewer words; It's a scam.

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