{"id":1020,"date":"2018-11-26T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1db-blog.1db.com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2018-11-26T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T20:47:00","slug":"bitcoin-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.1db.com\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin or Bust?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve months ago, a conservative investor could have invested their money into 1-year treasury yielding 1.19%; treasuries are considered the safest securities and guaranteed by the Federal Government. Conversely, for those less cautious, say the more venturesome and daring types who chose to purchase Bitcoin(s) over this timeframe, they too are nearing a return of just over 1%. Incidentally, the top in the advancement of Bitcoin&#8217;s meteoric ascent coincided with the futures markets trading Bitcoin. So what happened? The futures market enabled professionals to bet on the downside, that is, that Bitcoin would crater. 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Conversely, for those less cautious, say the more venturesome and daring types who chose to purchase Bitcoin(s) over this timeframe, they too are nearing a return of&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"button read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.1db.com\/?p=1020\">Continue<span class=\"hide\"> Bitcoin or Bust?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bitcoin or Bust? - Financial Advisors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.1db.com\/?p=1020\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bitcoin or Bust? - Financial Advisors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Twelve months ago, a conservative investor could have invested their money into 1-year treasury yielding 1.19%; treasuries are considered the safest securities and guaranteed by the Federal Government. 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