Quote from: exstasie on October 31, 2018, 11:24:00 PM

Quote from: WinslowIII on October 31, 2018, 05:14:12 PM

The problem with bitcoin is it needs to gain value over time or it becomes irrelevant, who wants to hold your money in something that is sinking? fiat can sink over time in value and remain relevant because it's all relative to the other fiat currencies and wages, and bank interest offsets most if not all of the drop.
So far bitcoin has done that in spades, but if the next halving comes and goes and the price doesn't surpass the last high by a good amount within a year or so it may be abandoned and crash to near nothing. Leaving prior adopters stranded is not going to work.

What asset just goes up forever? If such a thing existed, we could all be rich.

Even if Bitcoin holds the long term uptrend through the next couple halvings, it'll eventually break down. I don't see why entering a bearish supercycle (years or decade-long bear market) would change the bigger picture though. It's the same thing as the 2011 or 2014 bear cycles, just on a larger scale.

Bitcoin is provably scarce. If the demand keeps growing for such an asset them its value will also keep growing.

But I agree that it will eventually break down, if there was an asset a lot better than Bitcoin. So far, there is none.

Would you be holding Bitcoin as a store of value, or fiat? Cool