...As the fiat currencies lose value because the central banks 'print' money...
How come my USD didn't lose 2/3rds of its buying power over the past year like BTC did?
You are comparing Bitcoin between the ATH or close to it and now but if you bought in 2013 you are likely to be up or if you bought in 2014 you are likely to be down 30% max.
ORLY? Here's a chart, horizontal red line is 30% above today's price.
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fs18.postimg.org%2Fy9vkm1c3d%2FCapture.jpg&t=665&c=fBUWnO0mLS9WEA)
Your "30% max" is clearly bullshit
![Undecided](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/undecided.gif)
You need to compare an investment after a few years, the USD is likely to loose most its value when Bitcoin is likely to raise in value.
Bitcoin's ENTIRE HISTORY is 5 (five) years. Of which 3 years were spent in complete obscurity. We ain't got a few years.
To answer your question, USD is a bigger market.
wat
Very cheap and trustworthy transfers, store of value, decentralized store of value, non reversible transactions.
Very cheap trustworthy transfers of Bitcoin, not money.
Bitcoin has proven itself a horrible store of value over the past year.
BTCeanie
BTCabies did substantially better.