Also, you could have withdrawn funds through an ever-increasing network of bitcoin ATMs around the world. The downside to Coinbase is the 1. Then again, if bitcoin crashes, at least I’ll always have the socks. There’s a long list of factors people may point to in an attempt to explain this. As Buffett put it back in , «the idea that [bitcoin] has some huge intrinsic value is just a joke in my view. Yet a key reason the price of bitcoin keeps going up is, well, because it keeps going up.