Dusseldorf Bitcoin has been trading in a range between $36,000 and $39,000 for about a week, a long way from the previous record high of more than $68,000 in November last year. But for long-term investors, the question should be much more important than the current situation: What will happen next with Bitcoin?
How trustworthy, how transparent and how promising is the system behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency? Is it worth getting started now, or is Bitcoin already past its best days?
“Hot air” or “safe store of value”? Crypto influencers and bitcoin critics in debate
We spoke to two guests whose attitudes couldn’t be more different: 22-year-old Kiarash Hossainpour started investing in cryptocurrency when he was 16 and is now a Bitcoin millionaire. The entrepreneur and founder of a crypto fund regularly reports on the world of crypto currencies on his YouTube channel “Hoss”.
Michael Seemann takes the opposite position. The 44-year-old cultural and media scientist, blogger, podcaster and lecturer is of the opinion that Bitcoin is the means of payment used by blackmailers and money launderers anyway, investment fraud and an environmental disaster. The two controversially discussed the usefulness and importance of the world’s largest cryptocurrency.
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