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A shared belief in intrinsic value? What's the calculation then that results in the current bitcoin price without referring to it's existing or historical price
by Closi 6y ago
A shared belief in intrinsic value? What's the calculation then that results in the current bitcoin price without referring to it's existing or historical price?
The stock market goes up because you are looking at a market index of the biggest companies, which are growing bigger as markets concentrate. The difference is if you have a share for a year, it earns you a return separate to what happens to the price of the stock (i.e. a dividend), and this is the intrinsic value (i.e. you can do a fundamental analysis of the stock to reach a price). If you hold onto a Bitcoin for a year it might be worth more, but only because the market is pricing it differently, not because of any fundamentals. This is why it does not have intrinsic value.