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“Bitcoin has no utility”

bidirectional 5y ago
Everyone who bought Bitcoin 2 weeks ago has already experienced far greater negative losses than any Danish bank customer will over the next year. Danes can buy US government bonds quite easily if they want risk-free positive yields.
- rawtxapp 5y ago
  In all of Bitcoin's existence, at today's price, there's only few time ranges where you would have lost money, if you just held on, you made it back and then some. Of course, past performance doesn't indicate future, but so far, BTC has performed much better than fiat consistently.
  - bidirectional 5y ago
    While this is true, there has actually been no point since Dogecoin's inception where buying Bitcoin was the better option (denominated in fiat, of course).
    - rawtxapp 5y ago
      For much of doge's existence, it was worth practically nothing and still has very low trading volumes compared to BTC, so you can't easily get in and get out of a position. Tesla was able to sell 200M$ worth of BTC relatively easily, can't necessarily do the same with Doge.
    - nocommentguy 5y ago
      So how does this invalidate the parent comment’s point? If Dogecoin was a better hold than Bitcoin does that somehow imply that Bitcoin is a worse hold than dollars? And before you lecture about the function of fiat currency, remember the bottom half of society is forced to keep their entire net worth in cash because they are in a continuous financial emergency...
      - bidirectional 5y ago
        It doesn't. I just don't believe in advocating for regular people to hold highly volatile assets with unpredictable performance. The bottom half of society also hold large amounts of debt, one of the key functions of inflation is eroding the value of that debt. A currency like Bitcoin does not provide for this.
- Black101 5y ago
  It goes up and down very much like stocks, gold, etc... if you sell every time it goes down, of course you will incur losses.
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago
  >Danes can buy US government bonds quite easily Then they are exposed to exchange rate movements.
Jolter 5y ago
Bitcoin is many things, but it is not a savings account.
- rijoja 5y ago
  You could argue that that is what is best for due to its deflationary nature.

Everyone who bought Bitcoin 2 weeks ago has already experienced far greater negative losses than any Danish bank customer will over the next year. Danes can buy US government bonds quite easily if they want risk-free positive yields.

rawtxapp 5y ago
In all of Bitcoin's existence, at today's price, there's only few time ranges where you would have lost money, if you just held on, you made it back and then some. Of course, past performance doesn't indicate future, but so far, BTC has performed much better than fiat consistently.
- bidirectional 5y ago
  While this is true, there has actually been no point since Dogecoin's inception where buying Bitcoin was the better option (denominated in fiat, of course).
  - rawtxapp 5y ago
    For much of doge's existence, it was worth practically nothing and still has very low trading volumes compared to BTC, so you can't easily get in and get out of a position. Tesla was able to sell 200M$ worth of BTC relatively easily, can't necessarily do the same with Doge.
  - nocommentguy 5y ago
    So how does this invalidate the parent comment’s point? If Dogecoin was a better hold than Bitcoin does that somehow imply that Bitcoin is a worse hold than dollars? And before you lecture about the function of fiat currency, remember the bottom half of society is forced to keep their entire net worth in cash because they are in a continuous financial emergency...
    - bidirectional 5y ago
      It doesn't. I just don't believe in advocating for regular people to hold highly volatile assets with unpredictable performance. The bottom half of society also hold large amounts of debt, one of the key functions of inflation is eroding the value of that debt. A currency like Bitcoin does not provide for this.
Black101 5y ago
It goes up and down very much like stocks, gold, etc... if you sell every time it goes down, of course you will incur losses.
tonyedgecombe 5y ago
>Danes can buy US government bonds quite easily Then they are exposed to exchange rate movements.

Jolter 5y ago

Bitcoin is many things, but it is not a savings account.

rijoja 5y ago
You could argue that that is what is best for due to its deflationary nature.