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Comment by alexasmyths

" because millions of people view Bitcoin as a good place to park their money over fiat currency."

This would be very unwise.

BTC is highly volatile, and could go to 0 tomorrow.

It could could be made useless by the stroke of the pen someone in any big government.

Nobody keeps most of their assets in cash.

Stocks, Bonds, real estate, a basket of commodities, a basket of currencies - or even a decent long-term-interest savings account ... are all considerably better than BTC as stores of value if you don't like fiat.

When considering the 'risk premium' - BTC is a speculative instrument only. Not a currency, and definitely not a store of value.

parent alexasmyths 9 years ago

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