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May 10, 2026, 05:12:40 AM
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Due to its design, I'm afraid Bitcoin can't avoid being treated as a strategic reserve. In the first place, it's decentralized. It doesn't have counterparty risk. Moreover, its supply is fixed. It's, therefore, an attractive asset to be used as a strategic reserve.

However, it doesn't necessarily mean that if it's being utilized as a strategic reserve, it won't anymore function effectively as a medium of exchange, nor does it mean that it won't shoot up again.

I guess what lessens Bitcoin's volatility isn't necessarily how it's perceived or it's used but its level of adoption. Even if Bitcoin is used as a strategic reserve, for as long as the adoption is much wider, it would cease to be as volatile as today. The price won't anymore nosedive due to the decision of one institutional owner.

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May 10, 2026, 08:41:39 AM
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But Fiat would always look like a dollar today is same tomorrow because many don't focus on the real cost.
Because the US dollar has a ton more liquidity and it is completely normalized by the world. If instead of fiat, we had a bitcoin standard, you wouldn't notice deflation over short time periods either.

The volatility of bitcoin is completely justified for a total market cap of only $2 trillion. The US dollar has more than triple the entire market cap of bitcoin as a daily trading volume alone, and is backed by nearly every State of the world as every nation is a bagholder of US dollars.

 
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May 10, 2026, 08:58:52 AM
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Because the US dollar has a ton more liquidity and it is completely normalized by the world. If instead of fiat, we had a bitcoin standard, you wouldn't notice deflation over short time periods either.

The volatility of bitcoin is completely justified for a total market cap of only $2 trillion. The US dollar has more than triple the entire market cap of bitcoin as a daily trading volume alone, and is backed by nearly every State of the world as every nation is a bagholder of US dollars.
The Declining Purchasing Power of the U.S. Dollar
The USA national debt continues its rise with time and that is very big red flag for more effects on purchasing power of US. Dollar.
The USA debt clock.

Not only the USA, other nations globally have similar issues with their national fiat currencies from inflation rates to declining purchasing power. Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto not to fix governments or fiat currencies, just to give people globally a chance of moving away from traditional bank systems, have their own Bitcoin banks, avoid inflation or at least reduce its effects on their wealth by saving their money in bitcoin.

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May 11, 2026, 05:30:40 PM
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Most of the currencies in the world are fairly volatile, and most are more volatile than Bitcoin. The USD has even had a quite volatile last 12 months. Therefore, yes you can absolutely use a fairly volatile currency as a medium of exchange.
Yeah my country's currency is an example of such volatility
But it's not noticeable since like I stated before in majority perception the currency nominal value remains unchanged
The Iran currency even imitated how shitcoins work.
Well of course it is, and that is how it is supposed to be given the details of how perceptions of both cases come to be. How does an average person get familiar with their own currency growing up? It is money that you have to use, money that circulates, prices of things are in that currency and that is all that you know. You spend it, you use it, and you never think about inflation, or even exchange rates which you may only sometimes encounter if you need to get other currencies. Naturally you are basically programmed to ignore it unless you are an exceptional case. How do most people encounter Bitcoin? So many topics and so much talk about the price (the most boring and useless part of Bitcoin), so much focus on alleged cycles, trading, leverage. Therefore, most people have made themselves obsessed with this. How many fiat users look at the exchange rate daily or several times per day compared to Bitcoin or crypto users? Very few in %.

My question was supposed to be what would have a bigger impact on price
Medium of exchange or store of value
When Gold was the money the price didn't really go up like we see today since prices were measured in Gold
It showed in the prices of goods
But it started looking like it's quite volatile when it became of store of value.
The demand works stronger in cases of store of value for something that has a limited supply like Bitcoin, or a somewhat constrained supply like gold. A medium of exchange works best at stable prices and since very few value or want it for other reasons it tends to have a more stable price with all things being equal. The primary reason why fiat is unstable is due to the government manipulations and interventions (and other decisions). If they left it in peace (but they won't since it is profitable to abuse it), it would have much lower volatility.

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