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Such a strategy is dangerous when you're looking at a Ponzi scheme, or a pump and dump, or anything else that is designed to leave the late entrants as the bag holders.
I'm not saying that's what Bitcoin is, just that it's dangerous to be a late entrant to an investment and you should be more wary
(As a side note, this role for gold is clearly legacy: look at how little gold China stores, compared to their overall reserves.)
this not backing ?
> look at how little gold China stores
by metric tones china is on 6th place in world, what do you mean ?
> this not backing ?
It's the opposite. Originally you said "Gold Market is backed by Governments". This is governments being (partially) backed by gold.
>> look at how little gold China stores
> by metric tones china is on 6th place in world, what do you mean ?
Their economy is the largest in the world. How much smaller are their gold holdings, compared to those in first place?
So you're saying that Bitcoin isn't a store of value, but you speculate that it will be in the future.
I've come around to the idea. I don't hold any bitcoin anymore, and the best chance to get rich is gone, but I can see a future where something digital (hence fundamentally ethereal) acts as dense and largely unregulated store of value, for the people who need it. In the same way the drug trade currently uses artworks and commodities when it needs to move value across national boundaries, they can use hashes or something like that. Transaction costs to convert those from/to cash are actually higher and slower than bitcoin will likely ever be (i.e. a week or two, and several hundrend USDs, will still be acceptable).
We'll never pay taxes or coffees with bitcoin, or hold savings accounts, but it will still act as a commodity.