If Bitcoin doesn't keep getting bigger forever it will die.
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In what way?
The obvious thing nobody wants to say out loud.
What it needs is sustained monetary velocity: to keep changing hands in exchange for goods and services. This provides perpetual proof of value.
🎯there is no FGU without NGU. self custody means nothing if the asset is worthless and no one will accept it
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It needs more spendthrift culture, less hodl culture 🤑
HUGE Bitcoin > Big Bitcoin
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It needs both.
Bigger Bitcoin is coming
It differs from modern fiat in that the issuance is fixed and consensus over the ledger is decentralized, but like modern fiat it is a theoretical money where the ledger is not grounded to any physical reality. There is no guaranteed 1:1 exchange of Bitcoin for something of known value. So stability is gained though perpetual price discovery in the exchange of real goods and services of known value.
Currently the majority of Bitcoin is not exchanged this way but rather exchanged for fiat, and so the theoretical value is speculative and subject to the rise and fall of hype. That's why it is so volatile.
I've heard all kinds of abstract nonsense about Bitcoin being backed by electricity or computer hardware and what not. The cost of being randomly selected to add the next page to the ledger is not a backing of value in the practical sense, such as the way bank notes used to be backed by gold. There's no guaranteed exchange anchoring the unit if account to physical reality. It's a theoretical money with floating value that must be perpetually discovered in the exchange for things that are real.
If you lock up the entire UTXO set among holders who don't want to exchange it then the value essentially vanishes because it's not being proven in exchange.
In the words of Ed:
The only thing that grows forever is Cancer
Honest questions? Why? And what do you mean by getting bigger?
More value needs to keep accruing to Bitcoin and bitcoin
Well... But what is value to a currency and a decentralised system of ledger?
Is it its use? Its hording? Its hype?
What is it part of?
Enormous if valid
True if big
The bigness scales with the trueness
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