Ya, the next level is in sight, but major retailers need to accept this currency, and the rug was just pulled out from under it.
I have also sold a lot of collectibles on ebay (mostly sports cards) and I am very much aware of the way it goes. I suppose that I learned a while ago that selling things at a loss is sometimes better than holding onto it for an even greater loss.
The price instability is going to be a tough pill for retailers to swallow, for a while. Cryptos are a lot like foreign currencies when we travel... most people don't just think of the souvenir mug having a price in the local currency, they translate back into their own currency... in this case "fiat dollars/Euro" or whatever. It may take decades for that thinking to go away.
Precisely, you can't worry too much about losses on individual items! Sitting around losing sleep over "Shitcoin-3000" being down 50% is sort of wasted energy if your overall portfolio of 100 different assets is up 50%. And yet, many get freaked out and stuck there...
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