Re: Why is a constant rise in the price of Bitcoin, important?

Quote from: Kakmakr on May 16, 2018, 06:08:26 AM

Let's say you bought a bitcoin for $1000 in January 2018.

So you have to beat inflation and also the performance of other investments to say that your Bitcoin investment was a better investment, than other alternative investments.

Let's say your inflation is 5% and your best return on some other investment is %20 per year, then your Bitcoin price increase will have to be more than %25 to beat the alternative investment.

Let's say you hoard for 5 years, then you would need a price increase of 125% to beat your alternative investment returns over 5 years.

So we cannot have a price increase of 800% in year 1 and then a price decrease of %400 in year 2 and another price decrease of 200% in year 3 and so on...

Hope you get at what I am saying. Hoarding might be harmful to your profits, if you do not cash out SOME profit on the ATH. Wink

..... You might end up with a bitcoin worth $100 in year 5. Roll Eyes

So your point is that we should not hold Bitcoin for such a long period. I agree with you too. We should cash out some of our profits regularly. Holding is a great option to multiply your wealth. But since crypto market is highly volatile and it price can crash any time due to any factor which affect its price like manipulation, media, government views, demand and supply. If we dont cash out we will lose all our money when the price crashes.