Quote from: beduku22 on April 19, 2016, 09:49:42 PM

Quote from: BombayChicken on April 19, 2016, 03:03:45 PM

I would choose to hold Bitcoins because not only I but many other Bitcoin users are hoping that the price in the future is high then we have seen before.
So I am also hoping for that to happen I know that it is a gamble but I am confident that it will be alright.

Bitcoin is a much better investment compared to gold. But gold still had much more investments compared to bitcoin.

I would be courious to see some statistics about the users of bitcoin.
I would say that just a minor part of people are a kind of risk taker and major part of the people are safe players.
Some of the risk takers choose bitcoin, some of them won't have a clue about bitcoin. I'm sure there are a plenty of people among safe players who knows bitcoin, maybe they're following new about it, but won't ever get in touch with bitcoin as long as their incomes are not in bitcoin, in order to prevent themselves from the effects of the volatility of the price of bitcoin.
You can only expect bitcoin to be widespread enough if safe players can see just minor risk in bitcoin, but it needs time. Just imagine the evolution of car industry, it took 350 years to get to electric Tesla cars from the steam engine. Generations had time to get used to the cars on the streets, so they are not afraid from them. Bitcoin has not got 10 years yet, so you can't expect the average people (without a bit more special IT or financial knowledge) to trust it similar to gold or any other well known valuable thing to put their savings into.