Stability the shortest way to public adoptions.

[wumBowo]

For bitcoin to be used as a store of value and a medium of exchanging for goods and services, It must be stable like others currencies.

What stability? What "other" currencies? Fiat currencies? Fiat is the worst store of value.

This is the purchasing power of the U.S. Dollar from 1913 to 2013, and it is contantly sinking.



Give me Bitcoin, or give me death.

wow i just know this, so this is one of the reason back you can buy more things compare to these days with a same amount of money

[WinslowIII]

For bitcoin to be used as a store of value and a medium of exchanging for goods and services, It must be stable like others currencies.

What stability? What "other" currencies? Fiat currencies? Fiat is the worst store of value.

This is the purchasing power of the U.S. Dollar from 1913 to 2013, and it is contantly sinking.



Give me Bitcoin, or give me death.

wow i just know this, so this is one of the reason back you can buy more things compare to these days with a same amount of money

Well, when you made $20 a week it better have bought more.
The problem with bitcoin is it needs to gain value over time or it becomes irrelevant, who wants to hold your money in something that is sinking? fiat can sink over time in value and remain relevant because it's all relative to the other fiat currencies and wages, and bank interest offsets most if not all of the drop.
So far bitcoin has done that in spades, but if the next halving comes and goes and the price doesn't surpass the last high by a good amount within a year or so it may be abandoned and crash to near nothing. Leaving prior adopters stranded is not going to work.

[exstasie]

The problem with bitcoin is it needs to gain value over time or it becomes irrelevant, who wants to hold your money in something that is sinking? fiat can sink over time in value and remain relevant because it's all relative to the other fiat currencies and wages, and bank interest offsets most if not all of the drop.
So far bitcoin has done that in spades, but if the next halving comes and goes and the price doesn't surpass the last high by a good amount within a year or so it may be abandoned and crash to near nothing. Leaving prior adopters stranded is not going to work.

What asset just goes up forever? If such a thing existed, we could all be rich.

Even if Bitcoin holds the long term uptrend through the next couple halvings, it'll eventually break down. I don't see why entering a bearish supercycle (years or decade-long bear market) would change the bigger picture though. It's the same thing as the 2011 or 2014 bear cycles, just on a larger scale.

[frchowe214]

As long as demand continues to increase globally the price will continue to rise. Venezuela is creating huge demand as well as other failing economies so the outlook is very positive, especially with the halving in a couple of years time

[Wind_FURY]

The problem with bitcoin is it needs to gain value over time or it becomes irrelevant, who wants to hold your money in something that is sinking? fiat can sink over time in value and remain relevant because it's all relative to the other fiat currencies and wages, and bank interest offsets most if not all of the drop.
So far bitcoin has done that in spades, but if the next halving comes and goes and the price doesn't surpass the last high by a good amount within a year or so it may be abandoned and crash to near nothing. Leaving prior adopters stranded is not going to work.

What asset just goes up forever? If such a thing existed, we could all be rich.

Even if Bitcoin holds the long term uptrend through the next couple halvings, it'll eventually break down. I don't see why entering a bearish supercycle (years or decade-long bear market) would change the bigger picture though. It's the same thing as the 2011 or 2014 bear cycles, just on a larger scale.

Bitcoin is provably scarce. If the demand keeps growing for such an asset them its value will also keep growing.

But I agree that it will eventually break down, if there was an asset a lot better than Bitcoin. So far, there is none.



Would you be holding Bitcoin as a store of value, or fiat?

[GregH37]

For bitcoin to be used as a store of value and a medium of exchanging for goods and services, It must be stable like others currencies.  For the past 5 to 7 weeks now bitcoin has started to develop that characteristics and that is a big sign that both online and offline retails and wholesales business will started to used it very soon.  I believe that in blockchain technology we are getting closer to what the founders has in mind.

Stability is not something we can experience and it all depends on how you are seeing it, as I believe one way or the other, bitcoin's value will keep having more purchasing power in the long run, as the demand keeps increasing, which to me still makes 1btc to be equivalent to 1btc. As time goes on, when we gradually start seeing real life usage, we will get to see some mass mainstream adoption, and there is actually the possibility that when tagged to fiat, we may not be seeing huge volatility or movement as we see today and in that case, I can imagine what the value of btc would even be like.

Give me Bitcoin, or give me death.

I like that. One thing for sure which I believe is that due to the deflationary nature of bitcoin, 1btc will always be 1btc in purchasing power with its limited supply, when compared to the USD which over the years, I believe the feds have really melted it to pieces that there really may be nothing left of it in the long run. Stability is just one thing they want a lot of people to believe anyway, but what they do not realize is that in the fiat space, a lot of things have changed over the years, when it comes to inflation, and so many other negativity that surrounds it, and as far as I am concerned, fiat is just an equivalent of death.

[rhodelmabanal]

For bitcoin to be used as a store of value and a medium of exchanging for goods and services, It must be stable like others currencies.  For the past 5 to 7 weeks now bitcoin has started to develop that characteristics and that is a big sign that both online and offline retails and wholesales business will started to used it very soon.  I believe that in blockchain technology we are getting closer to what the founders has in mind.

Stability is not something we can experience and it all depends on how you are seeing it, as I believe one way or the other, bitcoin's value will keep having more purchasing power in the long run, as the demand keeps increasing, which to me still makes 1btc to be equivalent to 1btc. As time goes on, when we gradually start seeing real life usage, we will get to see some mass mainstream adoption, and there is actually the possibility that when tagged to fiat, we may not be seeing huge volatility or movement as we see today and in that case, I can imagine what the value of btc would even be like.

Give me Bitcoin, or give me death.

I like that. One thing for sure which I believe is that due to the deflationary nature of bitcoin, 1btc will always be 1btc in purchasing power with its limited supply, when compared to the USD which over the years, I believe the feds have really melted it to pieces that there really may be nothing left of it in the long run. Stability is just one thing they want a lot of people to believe anyway, but what they do not realize is that in the fiat space, a lot of things have changed over the years, when it comes to inflation, and so many other negativity that surrounds it, and as far as I am concerned, fiat is just an equivalent of death.

We will wait for the best time to hit the target price that will help price to have rapid increase when the right time come. Public adoptions will happen when demand and popularity also have quicker changes which will keep the price gain higher value, that will trigger more interst to thw public.

[exstasie]

What asset just goes up forever? If such a thing existed, we could all be rich.

Even if Bitcoin holds the long term uptrend through the next couple halvings, it'll eventually break down. I don't see why entering a bearish supercycle (years or decade-long bear market) would change the bigger picture though. It's the same thing as the 2011 or 2014 bear cycles, just on a larger scale.

Bitcoin is provably scarce. If the demand keeps growing for such an asset them its value will also keep growing.

But I agree that it will eventually break down, if there was an asset a lot better than Bitcoin. So far, there is none.

Key words: "if the demand keeps growing"

Even if Bitcoin is superior to all other forms of money, it isn't guaranteed endless demand. There is a limit to the amount of value that can flow into BTC, even if that limit is theoretically when every other possible type of money is valued at $0.

In all markets, equilibrium is eventually reached and overall trends reverse. Bitcoin is not immune to that, no matter how good it is.

[chickenado]

For bitcoin to be used as a store of value and a medium of exchanging for goods and services, It must be stable like others currencies.  For the past 5 to 7 weeks now bitcoin has started to develop that characteristics and that is a big sign that both online and offline retails and wholesales business will started to used it very soon.  I believe that in blockchain technology we are getting closer to what the founders has in mind.

Stability is not something we can experience and it all depends on how you are seeing it, as I believe one way or the other, bitcoin's value will keep having more purchasing power in the long run, as the demand keeps increasing, which to me still makes 1btc to be equivalent to 1btc. As time goes on, when we gradually start seeing real life usage, we will get to see some mass mainstream adoption, and there is actually the possibility that when tagged to fiat, we may not be seeing huge volatility or movement as we see today and in that case, I can imagine what the value of btc would even be like.

Give me Bitcoin, or give me death.

I like that. One thing for sure which I believe is that due to the deflationary nature of bitcoin, 1btc will always be 1btc in purchasing power with its limited supply, when compared to the USD which over the years, I believe the feds have really melted it to pieces that there really may be nothing left of it in the long run. Stability is just one thing they want a lot of people to believe anyway, but what they do not realize is that in the fiat space, a lot of things have changed over the years, when it comes to inflation, and so many other negativity that surrounds it, and as far as I am concerned, fiat is just an equivalent of death.

We will wait for the best time to hit the target price that will help price to have rapid increase when the right time come. Public adoptions will happen when demand and popularity also have quicker changes which will keep the price gain higher value, that will trigger more interst to thw public.

When would that best time will be? I don't think so we gonna do it in a short span of time, and expecting more from cypto was just a mere fact that having stabilized market price nowadays is too hard to experience. And even though we see stabilized price, we tend to have at lower price and not that high expectations.

[prtty2gal2]

For bitcoin to be used as a store of value and a medium of exchanging for goods and services, It must be stable like others currencies.

What stability? What "other" currencies? Fiat currencies? Fiat is the worst store of value.

This is the purchasing power of the U.S. Dollar from 1913 to 2013, and it is contantly sinking.



Give me Bitcoin, or give me death.

wow i just know this, so this is one of the reason back you can buy more things compare to these days with a same amount of money

Exactly why because the monetary system which is otherwise called fiat has been so flawed over the years, with it being covered up by inflation. Normally, most laymen would not understand that. We all know over the years, that there has been some policies that has even been jeopardizing the purchasing power of the fiat system all in the name of trying to place some level of control by all means, the level of monopoly and so many more, which in the long run, for the fact that bitcoin is deflationary, it will always make 1btc to be the same with a higher purchasing power over time like we are seeing already now over the years.

[buwaytress]

It's not an insensible argument to be sure, but if anyone had been waiting for this period of stability, they might have been inclined to see the same in at least 2 past periods. A pattern is easily seen, where bitcoin flies past all known highs, before slumping quickly and then taper off in price to some relative period of stability... Only to resume its wild pattern of volatility when speculative interest returns.

Don't get me wrong, I do see a period when this volatility assumes much longer, deeper timeframes. But I don't think we're anywhere near that.

I think Bitcoin already serves as a good store of value, one that's for a good many years only set to grow.

[figmentofmyass]

For bitcoin to be used as a store of value and a medium of exchanging for goods and services, It must be stable like others currencies.

What stability? What "other" currencies? Fiat currencies? Fiat is the worst store of value.

This is the purchasing power of the U.S. Dollar from 1913 to 2013, and it is contantly sinking.

that doesn't tell the whole story. "purchasing power" has obviously dropped by a huge magnitude because it's priced in dollars. that doesn't account for wage/income growth, which offsets drops in dollar purchasing power for consumers.

to clarify: the per capita net annual income in 1920 was $223.87. based on what source you look at, the average wage for workers around that time was $1300-1400/year. in 2016, the annual median personal income was $31,099.

so while 1920 dollars were worth 12x more than 2016 dollars in terms of purchasing power, wages are also 23x higher in 2016 than in 1920. that's why it's important to consider wage growth and cost of living in addition purchasing power.

also, not only are markets fickle, but we can't generalize across all commodities and goods. prices have not risen so significantly in many markets. for example, in 1920, the cost of a dozen eggs was $0.78. for comparison, last month, they cost $1.19 per dozen.

[BitHodler]

Now, those arguments about its high cost and slow confirmation should be thrown out of the window when the Segwit + LN rolling out in the next couple of years.

SegWit itself isn't doing much, so it all comes down to how we are going to see LN gain ground here. I'm just being realistic. People think that because right now the fees are low SegWit is doing its work, but there is more to it.

You know why the fees are much lower now?

* transaction batching
* smarter clients not recommending users to go with fees that don't make sense
* less network activity

Segwit is on the very bottom, and has been taking a dip in terms of what percentage of the transactions are utilizing SegWit. And you said it well, next couple of years. Do you think a 1MB block is enough to keep people satisfied till then?

As long as we don't face a bullish cycle resulting in months of severe network congestion it's not an issue, but what if it does happen? The fees will sky rocket again, which is why I don't hope to see a bull run.

[1Referee]

You know why the fees are much lower now?

* transaction batching
* smarter clients not recommending users to go with fees that don't make sense
* less network activity

Segwit is on the very bottom, and has been taking a dip in terms of what percentage of the transactions are utilizing SegWit. And you said it well, next couple of years. Do you think a 1MB block is enough to keep people satisfied till then?

As long as we don't face a bullish cycle resulting in months of severe network congestion it's not an issue, but what if it does happen? The fees will sky rocket again, which is why I don't hope to see a bull run.

Segwit might not be the main reason the fees have been going down, but we learn to work more efficiently due to network cluttering.

The reasons you pointed out are all the result of a better understanding of how important it is to work more efficiently. It also proves that we can book way more progress with the current block limit than most people even think is possible.

Increasing the block size isn't a solution but an open door to allow more centralization to take place, and it also shortens Bitcoin's life span in the long run. I'm sure that if we had 2-3MB blocks right now, people would throw data in it just because there is enough space. That's not how we should let Bitcoin be *abused*.

[kryptqnick]

For bitcoin to be used as a store of value and a medium of exchanging for goods and services, It must be stable like others currencies. 

Some stability would probably help serious companies to accept cryptocurrencies, but it doesn't mean that the stability should be on the current prices. The market needs to recover for people to trust in it. It lost billions of dollars very fast and that's not very encouraging. IMO if the market gradually returned to previous ath and then stabilized around it with +-10% fluctuations, it would be perfect. People would either profit or at least return their investments; traders will be able to profit from regular cycles; users will probably tolerate such small fluctuations.

[InvoKing]

For bitcoin to be used as a store of value and a medium of exchanging for goods and services, It must be stable like others currencies. 

Some stability would probably help serious companies to accept cryptocurrencies, but it doesn't mean that the stability should be on the current prices. The market needs to recover for people to trust in it. It lost billions of dollars very fast and that's not very encouraging. IMO if the market gradually returned to previous ath and then stabilized around it with +-10% fluctuations, it would be perfect. People would either profit or at least return their investments; traders will be able to profit from regular cycles; users will probably tolerate such small fluctuations.

I agree. People will join Bitcoin revolution in advance if the price keeps climbing gradually with a break of few weeks each time. Stability is important but moving forward is essential.

[Zadicar]

For bitcoin to be used as a store of value and a medium of exchanging for goods and services, It must be stable like others currencies.  For the past 5 to 7 weeks now bitcoin has started to develop that characteristics and that is a big sign that both online and offline retails and wholesales business will started to used it very soon.  I believe that in blockchain technology we are getting closer to what the founders has in mind.

Checking out bitcoins price on past months we can really say that it is close to stability but with those price swings or even short percentage cant really be considered to be stable unlike on FIAT.
We are on consolidation period that's why price movement runs on a flat line but anytime when people or community start to buy and adopt then price would swing up again giving out those
ups and down movement.Bitcoin isn't designed for stability just like what we saw on fiats.

[Bitcotalk]

For bitcoin to be used as a store of value and a medium of exchanging for goods and services, It must be stable like others currencies.

What stability? What "other" currencies? Fiat currencies? Fiat is the worst store of value.

This is the purchasing power of the U.S. Dollar from 1913 to 2013, and it is contantly sinking.



Give me Bitcoin, or give me death.

wow i just know this, so this is one of the reason back you can buy more things compare to these days with a same amount of money

Well, when you made $20 a week it better have bought more.
The problem with bitcoin is it needs to gain value over time or it becomes irrelevant, who wants to hold your money in something that is sinking? fiat can sink over time in value and remain relevant because it's all relative to the other fiat currencies and wages, and bank interest offsets most if not all of the drop.
So far bitcoin has done that in spades, but if the next halving comes and goes and the price doesn't surpass the last high by a good amount within a year or so it may be abandoned and crash to near nothing. Leaving prior adopters stranded is not going to work.

What do you mean by bitcoin becoming irrelevant if it does not gain value over time? The thing is that a lot of people are actually just looking at only the idea of bitcoin increasing in value over time alone, but you better start coming to terms that when mainstream adoption kicks in, you will not get to see the same level of volatility you are seeing now over time.

People need to understand that there is more to bitcoin than just the growth in price alone over time. What we should be more concerned is the real value and seeing that in the long run, bitcoin leaves the speculation zone and hit usage level.

[davinchi]

For bitcoin to be used as a store of value and a medium of exchanging for goods and services, It must be stable like others currencies.

What stability? What "other" currencies? Fiat currencies? Fiat is the worst store of value.

This is the purchasing power of the U.S. Dollar from 1913 to 2013, and it is contantly sinking.



Give me Bitcoin, or give me death.

i believe he was talking about other currencies aka fiat like USD,JPY,CNY and many more.
also, that 'thing' is much more stable compared to Bitcoin if we are looking at its history.
USD lost 96% its power in 2013 from 1913, but it needed 90 years to do that while Bitcoin only need a few months. that means USD is much more 'stable' compared to Bitcoin.

Obviously you have no idea what purchasing power is all about. Purchasing power is the value of a currency in terms of the goods or services that one unit of it can buy, probably that will give you a better enlightenment when considering the progress that bitcoin has made being a deflationary entity to what fiat has been over the years, so in a way, you really have some absurd ignorantly placed comparison. If you are considering the short term fluctuation in value against the dollar, then you are basically missing the point already.

[South Park]

For bitcoin to be used as a store of value and a medium of exchanging for goods and services, It must be stable like others currencies.  For the past 5 to 7 weeks now bitcoin has started to develop that characteristics and that is a big sign that both online and offline retails and wholesales business will started to used it very soon.  I believe that in blockchain technology we are getting closer to what the founders has in mind.

History shows you are wrong, people love the volatility and the money they can make in it, just look at the stock market, if a stock is not moving wildly many sell their stocks because they do not want to waste their time holding stocks that do not move, and the same is true with bitcoin, when was the interest in bitcoin at its highest point? When bitcoin was reaching all time highs every day.