Bitcoin should not be valued in USD by anyone serious about cryptocurrency
that does not make sense to me ? what should you value it in ?
do you think you will be able to settle debts with BTC and never have to convert to fiat ? I think this idea may be a long way out - I have only paid once for something outside of computer services via cryptocoin and that was a fail as the vendor used an intermediary whose percentage made the transaction more expensive than just conversion to fiat .
but in the meantime as BTC devalues , then DCR devalues as far as I can see