My sympathies. I do think the current price is due to speculation rather than real value, but what is the value of a currency? If it is simply what you can exch

My sympathies. I do think the current price is due to speculation rather than real value, but what is the value of a currency? If it is simply what you can exchange it for, in the case of bitcoin that is a freely floating value based on confidence, which will go down as well as up.