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My predictions are starting to come true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26220992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26220992

• HWR_14 5y ago
  Gold has been a store of value for millennia. Tulips were a store of value for just over a decade. What makes you so confident Bitcoin is the new gold and not the new tulips?
  • EGreg 5y ago
    As long as its price goes up, it will be more and more lucrative to mine (because rewards in Bitcoin terms will be larger).
    • HWR_14 5y ago
      That's only answering the question of "will it technically implode". It has nothing to do with why you think bitcoin will continue to be a store of value like gold as opposed to suddenly stopping being a store of value like tulips.
      • EGreg 5y ago
        It is just about the price of bitcoin. Which is affected by several factors including adoption — as a store of value.