On January 15th, 2015 £134 would have bought you a bitcoin

[scooterscot]

Today you need almost £600

How is it an imaginary currency that is under constant attack by legislators and governments around the world is outperforming a real currency like the pound?

[shaunbhoy]

Today you need almost £600

How is it an imaginary currency that is under constant attack by legislators and governments around the world is outperforming a real currency like the pound?

Why don't you tell us? You seem to spend most of your life in an imaginary parallel universe?

[DaveB]

Today you need almost £600

How is it an imaginary currency that is under constant attack by legislators and governments around the world is outperforming a real currency like the pound?

Cos it's also completely unregulated, out of view of the usual authorities and to all intents and purposes completely untraceable.

[greenlake]

[BrilloPad]

You think the pound is a real currency? Due to FIAT paper is almost meaningless.

The only true currency is London property.

[BrilloPad]

PS - has noone blamed Brexit yet? Shame on you......

[DimPrawn]

So glad I bought 10,000 of them a few years back.

Now finally, I can afford a deposit on a bedsit in London.

[scooterscot]

So what about the new currencies, Zcash and Monero? I know nothing about them except in name. Media tells us that bitcoin is dying because lack of regulation and traceability. But if anything I think that's a reason for even more growth.

[scooterscot]

So glad I bought 10,000 of them a few years back.

You wish. You really really wish.

[DimPrawn]

You wish. You really really wish.

I had to give 9,999 of them to the ex-wife as part of the settlement, but she was kind enough to let me keep one as a reminder.