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Re:Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is ... by benj111 on Friday March 22, 2019 @04:32PM (#19466600)
Bitcoin is traded less than gold. Gold isn't really used to buy consumer goods, and tends to be used as a store of value, thus the low trading volume. So it doesn't seem as if bitcoin is being used to buy things.

I wasn't making any judgement on what Bitcoin is good or bad for. I'm just inferring from the data how it is actually being used.

Re:Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is ... by caprese on Friday March 22, 2019 @06:43PM (#19467645)
Right I wasn't talking about just gold.

Bitcoin is held to a higher standard than actual currencies with regard to how much or little of it is used for purchases, and it is held to a higher standard than precious metals like gold with regard to how much or little of it is not moved at all.

The people educated in those asset classes commenting on bitcoin don't seem to notice, the people not-educated in those asset classes commenting on bitcoin aren't familiar with the economics and velocity of any asset class. That contributes to the state of the conversation today.

To move this discussion a little further, M0 of any currency would be a similar fraction of a percent as the trading portions of any commodity like gold.

With bitcoin, we also have to understand that trading volume on exchanges won't illuminate whether bitcoin is used for buying anything, as that likely would not be a transaction volume reported on exchange, but directly on chain itself and on secondary routing networks like Lightning.