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Price movements. The CFTC’s old educational site was pretty solid: https://web.archive.org/web/20120813061455/http://www.cftc.gov/ConsumerProtection/EducationCe

• npoc 3y ago
  Everything moves in price due to people trading it, so in that sense all assets are speculative. And housing for example is non productive.
  • ffgjgf1 3y ago
    > And housing for example is non productive. That’s not strictly true (I’m pretty rented housing fits the definition of a productive asset) and certainly not true at all when compared to bitcoin or gold
    • npoc 3y ago
      Are you classifying it as productive because you can receive compensation (rent) for lending someone your house? That's true for all property. In the case of money (which includes bitcoin and gold), it's called interest.