Why is bitcoin better than stocks, real-estate?

[hase0278]

Does the fact that bitcoin work as a universal currency effect the overall value?

The fact that bitcoin can work as a universal currency like USD somehow affects the overall value. Some people buy it for the purpose of buying an item online, and somehow the most convenient way to pay online when a store accepts bitcoin is btc itself. Although people tend to use bitcoin nowadays for speculative purposes, because of the said reason above the fact that it works as a universal currency helps to boost it's current value to a great extent.

[yndye]

In the traditional investment systems  there are areas like stock exchange, real estates, commodity market, forex market. Then there are hedge funds, mutual funds, equity, debentures. Next in line are precious metals like Gold, silver, diamond. Years after year and decades after decades when mainstream economics was convincing people that how one of above is better than other as it is giving returns in the range of 8% to 9% at max 10-13% a new revolution named bitcoin is rising and spreading across the world. Bitcoin has defied all conventional knowledge about return on interest. Surviving each negative publicity and doubts, incidents like mt. gox and still growing better than ever.

What do you think why bitcoin is the best investment than stocks, real-estate, gold or any other conventional investment?

As what you stated, it is the return of investment that make people attracted to be involved with bitcoin and other cryptocurrency. Comparing the rate of return in between industries or sectors will make you more convince to invest in bitcoin even though many are still doubtful about it because of its volatility. It has turned many young millionaires compared to investing in stocks or real estate where you have to wait few years or decades to have a rate of return the same with bitcoin in just a year. Though it is not advisable to invest only in cryptocurrency because it is still risky and we should always diversified our investments to avoid losing all you have because of a fortuitous event happening.

[Dodoymabs]

Does the fact that bitcoin work as a universal currency effect the overall value?

The fact that bitcoin can work as a universal currency like USD somehow affects the overall value. Some people buy it for the purpose of buying an item online, and somehow the most convenient way to pay online when a store accepts bitcoin is btc itself. Although people tend to use bitcoin nowadays for speculative purposes, because of the said reason above the fact that it works as a universal currency helps to boost it's current value to a great extent.

Because bitcoin market cap goes higher,higher than anything else.This shows how our economy evolving even in digital world.Bitcoin has already beaten golds marketcap this is the reason it is better than stocks.

[crypthomonkey]

No bureaucracy and a very high yield

[Erkallys]

For me Bitcoin is better than real estate for its flexibility to be sold and bought. It is better than stocks for somehow the same reason. One can not buy a stock like he buys a crypto-currency. He needs first to be in the working hours and days. Also, even though it is changing in some places, you still need to make a call to your bank each time you want to buy and sell. What a pain ! Crypto-currencies offer a welcome flexibility.

[richminded]

For me Bitcoin is better than real estate for its flexibility to be sold and bought. It is better than stocks for somehow the same reason. One can not buy a stock like he buys a crypto-currency. He needs first to be in the working hours and days. Also, even though it is changing in some places, you still need to make a call to your bank each time you want to buy and sell. What a pain ! Crypto-currencies offer a welcome flexibility.

For me both stocks and cryptocurrency are the best, I can easily trade stocks through online broker same with bitcoin thru crypto exchanges. Although I agree that those two paper assets are better compare to real estate. Stocks and bitcoin are more liquid than real estate but for me if you have much money to use then really better to have those 3 great investment, since all of them are good for long term purposes and you should diversify your money to lessen the risk.

[amaral1977]

I think BTC is in early stages and attracting a lot of people so it´s in a very exponential growth stage. We saw in the DOT.com bubble that anyone would be a stock investor but mainly in the US and Europe. what we are seeing in BTC is that anyone in the world can invest and you are not expected to invest 1000´s like in stocks. So every single citizen in the world can start with even a few sats make this a truly global market with a lot of growth potencial.

[mackenzied]

Bitcoin is not better. Bitcoin now used for the same purpose. But the return on investment in bitcoin is far higher. I think that it will not always. Perhaps in the future these assets will be equal in yield and then will be quite another matter. Now is the primitive accumulation of capital and it can take yield is not subject to any logic.

Buying bonds awaits you for a very long time. When playing stock, the stock market has many fluctuations. Buying a bitcoin will help you hoard the same savings as depositors. Increasingly high profit margins. You can sell or hold your own. Invest in bitcoin.

[anhhung409]

So far I have never seen any money creating such high interest rates, you can get a few times higher profits than the money you invest. However, it is worth noting that in Bitcoin, you can not predict the future as well as its increase so its potential risk is much higher than investing in stocks or real estate

[Coffee135]

So far I have never seen any money creating such high interest rates, you can get a few times higher profits than the money you invest. However, it is worth noting that in Bitcoin, you can not predict the future as well as its increase so its potential risk is much higher than investing in stocks or real estate

The risk of investing in bitcoin of course high but it's easy kompensiruet its high yield. And liquidity of bitcoin also remains high. Makes no sense to abandon such income. In addition, the return on investment in bitcoin is so high that you can quickly recover their investments and continue to earn income from net profit without risking your savings.

[FrueGreads]

In the traditional investment systems  there are areas like stock exchange, real estates, commodity market, forex market. Then there are hedge funds, mutual funds, equity, debentures. Next in line are precious metals like Gold, silver, diamond. Years after year and decades after decades when mainstream economics was convincing people that how one of above is better than other as it is giving returns in the range of 8% to 9% at max 10-13% a new revolution named bitcoin is rising and spreading across the world. Bitcoin has defied all conventional knowledge about return on interest. Surviving each negative publicity and doubts, incidents like mt. gox and still growing better than ever.

What do you think why bitcoin is the best investment than stocks, real-estate, gold or any other conventional investment?

It's really hard to say. I think when it comes to investments it's very important to be able to differentiate value from just price or profit. Bitcoin actually shines in both aspects right now, and that is why I think it's an amazing investment. We all know about it's value and purpose (the ability to act as a decentralized asset and currency, to be immune to inflation, it's ability to provide secure and direct forms of payment, without the need for an intermediary, like banks). This alone should be enough to buy bitcoin, even if its price was stable. But the thing is, that on top of all this, we have a technology that it's still in it's early days, and that means that it's still under-evaluated. So if we have an amazing valuable technology that is under-evaluated, that means that we can also profit from investing in it, because we will be the "pioneers" in this area.

So yes, for all this, bitcoin is a much better investment right now, when compared to all the other things you've mentioned.

[dewi91]

actually bitcoin the best investment for now.. in the last few months some people prefer invest with bitcoin because the prices of bitcoin so fast to increase and that can give them many profit in a short time but that doesn't mean bitcoin better than stocks, real estate.. in my opinion bitcoin just the one of alternative for investment.

[pixie85]

Is it? I know it's been very profitable this year but it's still a virtual good. If you have real estate you're open to many possibilities like you can start a business there, rent it out, live there. It won't disappear just like that and if you die it will be inherited by your family. If you build a house it will be something they can remember you by. Physical goods have that advantage over virtual ones.
I'd say Bitcoin is performing better than stocks and real estate but it's not better.

[Bagaji]

People see Bitcoin to be better than stocks, real-estate and the rest of the traditional assets because Bitcoin volatility is so high and all in favour of investors at the same time, not many people have experienced or incurred huge lost yet because the volatility is all in favour of them.

[Razick]

Real estate brings about 6-10% ROI annually. Stocks bring 8% on average, and if you are lucky you might get 10-14% on a good year. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has brought 700% ROI to everyone who bought it only a year ago. This means the BTC is literally 70 times better of an investment than stocks or real estate.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

The easy answer to this is that bitcoin is in a runaway bull market.  It's like Jesse Livermore used to say when asked why stocks were going up--"It's a bull market, my boy!"  So anyone who's put money into bitcoin in the last few years has made crazy money.  How long this will last is another issue, and it's one that no one here can answer with a straight face.

Real estate is always good to invest in, IMO.  Owning property is important should we get hit with a zombie apocalypse.

Gold & silver?  Right now they are some of the worst-performing assets on the market.  They're still up for the year, but nowhere near what bitcoin or the stock market are doing.  They don't pay dividends, they don't perform any useful functions other than sitting there looking pretty and waiting for the next 2011 bubble.  Some might say it's a good time to buy, now that they've been beaten down, but I'm not sure.  I did recently buy some gold & silver with bitcoin, and as it turns out I should have saved the bitcoin.  Ugh.  Live and learn, right?

So yeah, bitcoin right now is king.  No one really calls a bubble correctly, but I'm not sure we're not in one right now.  Kinda scary.

Stocks bring 8% on average

Oh, I think most people right now are doing way better than that.  The freakin' Dow is at 23,000!

[alexzorgo]

Bitcoin at the moment not the best place for all own investments. It is high-risk very unstable tool among all opportunities. It at the same time bears as much new opportunities how many new risks. Therefore many experienced investors use it as a part of the investment portfolio. Because investing in bitcoin it is possible to lose all the investments at any time. Newbies very much risk in hope to hit a jackpot investing all the savings in bitcoin

[Nyenyepogi]

In the traditional investment systems  there are areas like stock exchange, real estates, commodity market, forex market. Then there are hedge funds, mutual funds, equity, debentures. Next in line are precious metals like Gold, silver, diamond. Years after year and decades after decades when mainstream economics was convincing people that how one of above is better than other as it is giving returns in the range of 8% to 9% at max 10-13% a new revolution named bitcoin is rising and spreading across the world. Bitcoin has defied all conventional knowledge about return on interest. Surviving each negative publicity and doubts, incidents like mt. gox and still growing better than ever.

What do you think why bitcoin is the best investment than stocks, real-estate, gold or any other conventional investment?

Bitcoin is better than others becuase if the value goes down it will increase again by just a day or a week so bitcoin is a good  other than stock that need to wait for too long to get huge money so i prefer always to hold bitcoin for my future.

[jakezyrus]

In the traditional investment systems  there are areas like stock exchange, real estates, commodity market, forex market. Then there are hedge funds, mutual funds, equity, debentures. Next in line are precious metals like Gold, silver, diamond. Years after year and decades after decades when mainstream economics was convincing people that how one of above is better than other as it is giving returns in the range of 8% to 9% at max 10-13% a new revolution named bitcoin is rising and spreading across the world. Bitcoin has defied all conventional knowledge about return on interest. Surviving each negative publicity and doubts, incidents like mt. gox and still growing better than ever.

What do you think why bitcoin is the best investment than stocks, real-estate, gold or any other conventional investment?

bitcoin is definetly better than any other types of investment because of its high volatility that can cause to its value to increase or decrease but mostly increasing in a shorter period of time , thats why most of investors and traders choose and prefer bitcoins rather than  others because they can earn much profit in a quick way. plus bitcoins are much easier in terms of trading, buying and selling it compared to others.

[Tamilson]

Just choose how you make a good profit, which one you gonna choose?
In bitcoin you can see your profit even in just a month because  of its volatility while investing in real estate, it takes years to appreciate with just a little interest while in stocks? You actually didn't have a clue when will you take profit.
We're all talking money here and we all want is to make more profit so I don't see anything why choose real estate versus bitcoin as we knew many are making great money through it.