Stupid question, is bullish too
What's funny is, I was originally going to respond to his question with the exact same thing, except I would have been joking.
if bitcoin was really dying, the bears wouldn't stick around. They would go on counting their fiat.
If bears stick around, it's because they think bitcoin is worthwhile. It's just that some of us don't think it will be a failure if it's not worth 8 billion per coin (or whatever ridiculous number you permabulls have in your head), or even $1000 per coin.
Well, I guess it would be a "failure" if your only goal was to get filthy rich off of minimal investment, but come on, it's not about that, right? It's about sticking it to the man and overthrowing the banks with a "disruptive" technology. No way the goals of most involved in bitcoins is just to get more "dirty dirty fiat," right?
To me it's not about getting more fiat, but I do hope that in the future I can buy more with it than I can today.
I also like that they can't take it away with a press off a button.
I can instantly pay somebody, yes I know a credit card is semi instant, but my mother, father, sister, brother, friends, ... don't accept creditcard, neither do I, and if I go and deposit large amounts of cash they think I'm a drugs dealer.
Going somewhere in the world doesn't matter where... and they all accept BTC... would be ideal.
And since it's quite hard to store a lot of gold, hey BTC it is.