> Fee for speculation Well first of all everything is speculation, it goes both ways, you mentioned BP, well people use barrels of oil today because they think

> Fee for speculation Well first of all everything is speculation, it goes both ways, you mentioned BP, well people use barrels of oil today because they think it won't be worth more tomorrow Coinbase takes a fee for every transaction in the assets traded on the platform. The asset in question is the one which people choose as the asset to hold on to express their fears of inflation This is not unlike 2010 when people like Stanley Druckenmiller and libertarians alike predicted hyperinflation due to QE. Normies are where Druckenmiller was back in 2010, they have an irrational fear of inflation and they express it by buying BTC. Coinbase is perfectly positioned to gain from this movement which emerged, and it will only continue given that like anything the more authorities tell humans what to do (in this case to spend) the more they rebel by doing the opposite