Video Proof that Bitcoin Today is like the Internet in 1995Jeff Berwick Its amazing to consider that just twenty years ago most people didnt even know what it was. For instance, in 1995, in the following clip, David Letterman and Bill Gates discuss the Internet. Bill Gates calls the web wild, and David Letterman clearly has no idea what the Internet even is. He couldnt get his head around why the Internet is any better than radio and even questioned whether the Internet was still around. I suspect in the coming months, perhaps before Stephen Colbert takes over for him, David might ask if Bitcoin is still around. In the following clip, from 1994, Brian Gumbel asks, What is the Internet anyway? The Sun, which is now being forced to an all-digital platform or risk bankruptcy like so many dinosaur news outlets, even predicted the Internet would never work. Another great call from the economic genius who has since come up with faking an alien attack and making a coin worth a trillion dollars as some of his ideas to improve the economy. Interestingly, the one person who foresaw the Internet quite well actually foresaw it in 1974. That was Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction writer who nearly picked it to a T. And, to give myself some credit, back in 2000 (when the Internet was already fairly advanced but many people still thought it was just a bubble) I predicted much of what we are seeing today and did it while doing my best impression of Lance Bass! But, the main point being, that Bitcoin today reminds me of the early days of the Internet where many of us who were harkening it to be the next great game-changer werent very well understood and often scoffed at. Last year I had to slowly explain what Bitcoin was on Fox Business amongst many other news outlets. It felt like deja-vu of the mid to late 90s with the Internet. The crash Stuart Varney was referring to in the above video, by the way, was Bitcoin falling from $200 to $100 before it took off to above $1,000 and now rests near $400. In any case, as I wrote in the November issue of The Dollar Vigilante (subscribe here), the lack of talk on Bitcoin right now in the media and across the Internet is a good sign. It means that most of the speculators are out of the market and those who want to sell have sold. Yet, at the same time, Venture Capital money has been coming into Bitcoin at the same rate as it did into the Internet in 1995. As The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It (TEOTMSAWKI) continues down its preordained path, cryptocurrencies will skyrocket as fiat currencies of all shapes and colors fall by the wayside. Mark my words that Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general will continue to rise until they are just as ubiquitous as the Internet today. Ive seen this all before. Questions or comments? Join us at TDV. Anarcho-Capitalist. Libertarian. Freedom fighter against mankinds two biggest enemies, the State and the Central Banks. Jeff Berwick is the founder of The Dollar Vigilante, CEO of TDV Media Services and host of the popular video podcast, Anarchast. Jeff is a prominent speaker at many of the worlds freedom, investment and gold conferences including his own, Anarchapulco, as well as regularly in the media including CNBC, CNN and Fox Business. As Bitcoins price not being stabilized, or backed by precious metal or resource , is just another speculative medium, like any share on wall street Bitcoin as huge as the Internet Jeff? If you think bitcoin can be hacked:, youre an idiot. Its not a website. As far as anonymity, all bitcoin transaction are viewable in a public blockchain, and thus available for everyone to see. You can be anonymous in your use of bitcoin, if you want to be maybe; by not attaching your name in any way to your bitcoin address (but you would need to be really, really careful to be able to do this). But the system (public blockchain) is designed to make transactions transparent, not anonymous or hidden in any way. Im so tired of know-nothings making random foolish statements about bitcoin from a position of zero understanding. what dont you understand? Nothing is anonymous on the internet to begin with, no matter what! When you purchase a compute via cash, using it on a public connection just for transactions, never have it connected to your own private one is the only way possible. But then again, transferring or buying bitcoins makes all that obsolete! There have been and there are other e-currencies. E-gold, for example, was very popular before the authorities of the United States thought it was too much anonymity. Strange then that they let bitcoin grow! Is there some hidden motive!? Rubbish! The internet was a no brainer, but Bitcoin is just an illusion. When you got no access to the internet or power, what is it worth then? Right, NOTHING! This article was written by a moron. Bitcoin was implemented on purpose and getting sold with the idea to be anonymous, which is not the case. Seems to many have no clue how things work. There is no real anonymity on the internet to begin with, even when you use a public connection available to anybody and even TOR is not safe either and can be traced back. Somebody tried to show proof on TED, but had o cancel on pressure from a certain group not to reveal how though. Jeff, this article is misinformation and you should have never written that piece. I can be anonymous using cash, gold or other means of bartering, but anything on the web can be traced, encrypted or not! 