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22. 20.000 USD
4,000 USD
12,000 USD
Source: CoinMarketCap.com FrankSchwabSpeaks.com
Jan 2017 Nov 2019
By now, Bitcoin is liquid, while still highly volatile
23. Jan 2017 Apr 2018 Nov 2019
48,000
38,000
USD/kg
Source: https://goldprice.org/gold-price-chart.html FrankSchwabSpeaks.com
Gold fluctuates up to 30% in the last 3 years
88. „Money is central
to us. Money and
all forms of
transferring
money are our
core business.“ Burkhard Balz,
Board member of Deutsche Bundesbank
Source: CFS-Conference, 8th Mai 2019
89. „The only way to ultimately save
civilization will be to deprive
governments of their power over money.
The current instability of the market
economy is a consequence of the fact
that the most important regulator of the
market mechanism, money, has been
excluded from regulation by the market
process.“
"Denationalization of money“, 1976
Friedrich August von Hayek,
Nobel Prize Winner 1974