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Interestingly actually, Bitcoin is one of the few asset classes that is de-coupled from its supply/demand.

Unlike say, gold and oil - if that increases in demand, more mines are opened, more sites are evaluated looking for it etc. Whereas bitcoin, the higher (or lower) demand doesn't affect the fact that on average a block is only mined once every 10mins adding 6.25 BTC to the supply... And that throwing more resources into mining it just increases your odds of getting that block reward, but not increasing supply as would happen with the above commodities, or in the example - cheeseburgers.

--To the point - when we have increasing amounts of something like dollars, there certainly are things that can't and wont 'rise with the tide' of those dollars increasing in supply.



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