Re:CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10
by dnautics on Monday December 04, 2017 @11:19AM
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> Why spend something that is guaranteed to become more valuable? If I had something in my pocket that I knew would become more valuable by systemic necessity, I’d save it as long as I possibly could.
Why buy a computer/phone/car that is guaranteed to become cheaper next year, or obsolete within 2. If I were given the opportunity to purchase something that systematically becomes LESS expensive, I'd hold off on the purchase as long as I possibly could.
Re:CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10
by dnautics on Friday December 08, 2017 @07:17AM
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Presumably if a real money system (like dollars for most of the 19th century) were deflationary, people could still use those dollars, and whoa. They did use those dollars.
Why buy a computer/phone/car that is guaranteed to become cheaper next year, or obsolete within 2. If I were given the opportunity to purchase something that systematically becomes LESS expensive, I'd hold off on the purchase as long as I possibly could.