Bitcoin a world currency? Following the Gresham's Law, this can never happen. Watch this video to find out why. There is also a contest at the end of this video.
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Hi! Today from the Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
Today I will tell you why Bitcoin will never become the world means of payment.
Stay with me till the of this video. We will have a contest and something to win.
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The title of this video may come surprising to my audience - to the people who know that I'm an early Bitcoin investor.
Bitcoin supporter and true cryptocurrency believer.
But nevertheless I don't believe Bitcoin will become the dominating currency in the sense of being the global medium of exchange.
So, I'll explain to you why it's my conviction and meanwhile you can observe the crypto sharks behind me.
And if they are gonna attack me and maybe eat me for breakfast.
But you should know about Gresham's law.
Gresham's law is a financial law stating that a bad currency pushes a good currency out of the market. What does it mean?
Imagine you have two currencies: A and B.
And you hold in both of these currencies, let's say, $100,000.
In both of these currencies. A and B.
The currency A is a bad currency, which means it falls in value with every day... maybe every year. But generally it depreciates.
It's getting less in value.
And the currency B is a good currency meaning it appreciates in value.
Meaning it gains in value every year, every day. On the long term, on the middle term.
It gains in value.
Now! Imagine you want now to buy a car for let's say $50,000.
Which of these currencies would you use to buy the car?
Of course, the currency A! The bad currency. Why?
Because you want to keep the better currency - the currency that gains in value and give away the currency that depreciates as quickly as possible.
That's why, by the way, the central banks are lowering the interest rates as much as possible.
Because they want people to give away, to use the currency to speed up the throughput of the currency in the economy.
It just supports the economy.
So, it means for a private person, for a company, for an institution...
It just makes sense. It makes economic sense to give away or to use the bad currency while purchasing services, goods and to keep the good currency
in your savings account or just not to touch it because it appreciates.
So, in the middle term, in the long term you're just better off with that strategy.
And when everybody does it and everybody thinks rationally, everybody thinks economically,
then in the effect the good currency is pushed out from the usage in the economy by the bad currency.
Applying this to, let's say, crypto world or applying this to Bitcoin...
It would mean Bitcoin is a really good currency because you have a limited supply. You can't inflate the currency. You can't inflate Bitcoin.
There will be only 21,000,000 Bitcoins in existence any time in the future. Maximum.
So, it means it will long term, middle term, long term it will always gain in value.
It's a good, a very good currency.
But there will be currencies that aren't that good. That are losing in value.
One of the currencies is of course dollar or other fiat currencies but even if they go cashless, if they will be like electronic currency...
The goal and the strategy of governments is to inflate the currency in order to have the economy go around; in order to stimulate the economy.
So, these currencies will dominate in trade. These currencies willl be used in trade, in payments and Bitcoin will be used as store of value.
So, if I say I don't believe Bitcoin will become the world currency, the world medium of payment it doesn't mean it will be worthless.
It doesn't mean it will lose it's value. Not at all.
It means that Bitcoin will be used as storage of value and other currencies either be it a cryptocurrency or maybe some fiat currency
Or maybe government based digital money will be used in trade, in exchange, in payments.
So, as a consequence the success of Bitcoin, meaning the rising value of Bitcoin will at the same time become the reason
for Bitcoin not becoming the world currency.
It will paradoxically become it's kind of limitation.
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Great video. I tend to agree that one currency may have a hard time being both an asset investment and a liquid means of exchange for the reasons you state. If you have something that is going up in value, you won't use it for exchange. In the same way, if the currency is only being used for liquid transactions, then it isn't really a good idea to hold it as an investment. It is much the same rule that people don't stockpile cash in a bank account as an investment. They might use that cash to buy less liquid investments (ie. real estate, stocks/bonds, gold, etc.) and treat those as investments, meanwhile leaving a separate account with liquid funds for day to day transactions (ie. check account). Bitcoin, like Fiat currencies, can be both however I think time will tell where it best serves purpose. I do see that it is a very efficient and inexpensive cross border payment tool, but if the recipient cannot spend it then it won't be widely adopted. Lightning network may be the key indicator of how this works if retail vendors are willing to accept it as a form of payment at the counter.
It is early days and like you I've been a Bitcoin hodler for a very long time (since 2011) so I have some skin in the game here. That said, I did sell a lot of BTC last year at the highs because I could not see BTC achieving its network effect and true potential - at least not for some time. I'm still not sure if/when that will happen but I'm still optimistic. I think that the alternatives (our existing fiat currency system) are not very good for ease of transactions across borders and that may be the key here - let's all see how this plays out, but it will take years I think.
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Great insights k0d3g3ar! I absolutely agree that keeping value and being means of exchange somehow exclude each other. It's interesting how money (if you take the definition of money) wants to be both but if Grasham is right, then it can't be both. Have a fantastic day!
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Hi!!! Excellent article, great analysis!!! I upvoted, of course, resteemit and follow you!!! Keep posting useful articles, ideas, and analysis!!! Have a nice weekend!!!
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Thank you for your nice words! Have a fantastic day!
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