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A. speculation

B. diversification against more tradional assets

C. store of value if you don’t have access to any better financial instruments

D. keeping some ready on hand to pay off ransomware attacks



Regarding B, Is there any evidence that BTC is countercyclical? It seems to have followed the conventional market down over the past week.


> It seems to have followed the conventional market down over the past week.

Bitcoin would be $3 per Bitcoin if it only correlated to the NASDAQ over the last 10 years

It does its thing


Well it of course doesn't corellate S&P 500 1:1, so it provides some diversification (same as everything else).

Gold has been down over the past week as well, it is normal for all instruments to move together at times of uncertainty (and when many folks are getting margin called).


E. Learning what it's like to be dumped on


So far it worked out pretty well


All except maybe D also apply to Pokemon cards


And to stocks, real estate, gold, ...


Yes, so what?




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