I find it quite funny that just after the great mccorvic-Mosper debate there comes several other posters to provide evidence to the case.
Dargo, jubalix, Spaceman_Spiff all pondering the issue of bitcoin increasing value and adjusting their behaviour with the purpose of not losing bitcoins in this situation.
I am fully confident they are all just trolling and saying stuff they don't really mean.
I'm not familiar with this debate either, and meant what I said. I plan to buy small ticket items with my coins in the near future but want to save most of them because I think they will appreciate in value quite a lot. Rather than take profits by buying fiat, my plan is to buy things I need, and I will buy bigger ticket items as my buying power increases. So I plan to save more than spend for the most part, but isn't that just what a deflationary currency tends to encourage? I think the bitcoin economy will still be vigorous with many trying to save their coins, one reason being that they are so dang convenient for transactions in so many ways. I want to support bitcoinstore, so much so that I've been scouring the store trying to find something I need. They don't really have anything I need, but I'm thinking now in terms of gifts for others, and that might work.