Quote from: BartS on September 10, 2018, 03:02:08 PM

The OP seems to think that acting as a store of value is not part of money and that the use that were giving to it is mistaken, but that is not true, one of the characteristics of money is to be a store value, what happens is that people have forgotten about this aspe ct because for all their lives they have used fiat, which is not a store value and will never be, what you are seeing is money being used as intended, right now there is no point in spending are bitcoin when we can obtain great profits thanks to the fiat system once that's over you will see bitcoin being used to buy stuff.

Bad economy policies, inflation and a lot of bullshit has rubbed off on fiat over the years and that is why a lot of people stopped trusting in the system a long time ago. As long as in the long term, you believe that whatever you are holding is good enough to give you the same value back or more value based on its usage and adoption, then it is a store of value. Unfortunately, this is one thing fiat could not give and then we saw crypto bringing.