Any unrest might stimulate bitcoin... - might, yes.
...as it is not influenced by any government politics or economic problems. - like Greece, Cyprus, the imposition or relaxation of capital controls in China? Nope, I'm calling "nonsense" on this part.
If this stuff keeps escalating it might become interesting. - it's interesting now, it's just not interesting in a "Bitcoin speculation" sense, but in a "
Politics and society" sense.
Yes war stimulates economy,
And in ww2 gold was chased by germans and hidden by allies,stored by the swiss etc... ( is china the new switzerland if btc is the new gold?)
but war can also create huge debt in fiat economy
still thinking that price is also linked to politics
http://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/790418/666f51e60c9873bada554393fe6573d7 Discussions like yours take place all the time in the Politics and Society section, a section of this forum devoted to discussing politics, society, and their relevance to Bitcoin. This section of the forum is for discussing speculating with BTC. Think about it - are you
really going to post in the Speculation section every time something happens in the world? There's a massive crisis in Northern Syria right now, with things happening every day. If these events had any significant impact on the price of BTC don't you think we'd have evidenced that by now? Despite your high hopes, we didn't see a major rise when that Russian jet went down - in fact we saw a fall a few days later. These events you're posting - I understand that they seem really important (from a BTC-perspective), but honestly - they're not.
I think someone else in this thread has already tackled the "war == profits!!!1!" belief far more eloquently than I could, but honestly I see these mini-war posts as leading to the same nonsensical argument - if the major powers get drawn into a hot conflict between themselves, instead of their proxies, it is
not going to be Bitcoin's golden age - it's going to be war, and it's going to be hell.
PS. That image you posted. The Russian jet went down towards the end of the steep rise, a rise that had gone on for a couple of months. BTC prices fell a few days later. If you want credible evidence for your assumption, go back over a few years and compare geo-political events with BTC price. If you can't be bothered doing that, at least cherry-pick your data a bit more carefully.
