Imagine i buy something today with btc.
With 1 btc.
Today its worthed 60k tomorrow will be 40k.
And can fall down even further so the person who i transfered btc are in loss ?
The volatility is main issue why we cant use never for paying something....or im wrong ?
Or how is the situation here ?
i bought something with fiat in a retail store that only accepts fiat.
its regular price was $400. but was $300 on black friday. and now that christmas is approaching and stock is low its priced at $450
even fiat has volatility.
ive even seen simple things like milk vary by 25% depending on which retailer you choose.
fiat is not as stable as people think. we have just got used to its change so much we have stopped noticing the change.
i have just gone on ebay and typed in "UK XBOX X series 1TB" and the prices range from £700-£760
so fiat is no different to bitcoin in terms of variable pricing
when you put the same mindset of "sales event", "discount day", "convenience premium" and £retailer competition/monopoly" of fiat, and put it to bitcoin.
you will start to see a bitcoin price dip as a discount day (good for buyer bad for seller)
and when the price is hyped up its the "convenience premium" (good for seller bad for buyer)
so buy the dip(discount) sell the hype(premium)
buy low sell high
when transacting. merchants decide their level of risk of discount/premium when they set their prices to offer products for. they assume the risk. they assume they may make a loss if they dont time their sell of goods right (much like retailers make a loss on goods passed their 'sale by date') or when next gen fresher goods come about
they price this risk into the goods offering price.
if they want to sell something at ~$500(0.01btc today) but they think that by the time they get that btc and convert it to pay their own costs the price might dip by 10%. they might price it at 0.011btc instead to factor in this risk. ensuring it covers any possible dips.
many merchants even have 'live price' monitoring, where by the btc price of a website shopping cart calculates the amount of btc only at the time of purchase or uses dynamic webpages where the day/hour the customer is browsing has the price of goods match that day/hours price. and not some fixed html text they only update every 6 months (dynamic websites are a thing)