• blandfordforever@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    I agree. No currency or store of value has any true value until you go to spend or exchange it. It only has potential value.

    You do realize that Dollars also are also constantly changing in value.

    • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      8 hours ago

      Not really what I said. I said gold and all the commodities are denominated in Dollars.

      You hold gold because you hope to sell it at a future date for more dollars. You hope China doesn’t find more gold or some country decides to release gold locked in vaults. In the end you want more dollars than you started with.

      Same with bitcoin which is going up in price because of a flood of Dollars from ETFs and due to Trump’s potential policies. You want bitcoin to go up in price so you can sell it for more dollars.

      Another thing to keep in mind is that Bitcoin has characteristics of a real asset, not a financial asset.

      Dollars, you can give to the US Government for payment of taxes etc. There is a corrosponding liability at the Fed. That is not the case with “real” assets like Bitcoin, there is no corrosponding liability.