Stop comparing #bitcoin to tulips. Tulips lack many essentials qualities of money: Durability, Divisibility & Uniformity (which BTC has). Gold is a much more accurate comparison (though imperfect).
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Pros of gold: long history & non-monetary uses place a floor on value (won't go to zero), helps holders feel safe. Pros of BTC: more transferable, divisible, can grow in features. Con: could be replaced by competitors and become worthless.
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Re: gold vs BTC, one major, usually overlooked difference: BTC has fixed future supply. Gold has, in theory, infinite future supply. So BTC is more like a work of fine art--but transferable, divisible, etc. No asset like this has ever existed.
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I'm not sure I agree. You can grow the money supply of cryptocurrencies just by forking, unlike gold. That's why the number of crypto tokens has grown waaaaay faster than gold bars (although less than demand, hence the higher prices)
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I think money is a lot like a Schelling Point. Once people converge, it's hard for copycats to take hold unless they have some difference in function (silver useful for small value transactions so it still used as money in addition to gold).
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I don't think Bitcoin 2.0 will have value, but other coins with different value proposition might: Litecoin for smaller value transactions, ZCash for privacy, etc.
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Even if that last con is a serious concern, you'll need to something to buy the competitors with, and Bitcoin will do that as well as anything.
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I don't think btc has the first mover advantage tbh
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