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Topic: What should we focus on more? Demand or Supply? - page 4. (Read 1710 times)

hero member
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Agreed 100%! It is indeed glaring to everyone how complex things are in this space and for the fact that most investors see it more as an investment and would rather hold than spend considering the level at which the value can reach eventually has made it more of a speculative asset than for it to be used as a currency.

We also cannot expect things to happen overnight, as all these things will be a gradual process until we achieve equilibrium, and this is where the idea of having a somewhat less volatile value will come in, but we all know it is actually not that easy and like you said, it is really easier said than done.
When there's a price, there's an equilibrium. As soon as anything hits the market, equilibrium comes into position. There'll be some point,where the market would be in disequilibrium, only to go back to the equilibrium point at a later stage.

People don't understand at all,that there is something called economics, and that plays a big role. I feel bitcoin is somewhat headed to the same 1929 The great Depression scenario, people didn't realize that economics is also dealt on an entire economy level and not just on a micro level. But in bitcoin, people don't even see anything of it related to economics. Its disappointing that more stupid people are involved in it,and not more smart people.
jr. member
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It is the quite strange question because demand and supply are both important equally. As we know if demand is bigger than supply then a price of a particular asset goes up and obviously if supply is bigger than demand then a price goes down respectively. If demand and supply are approximately equal than a price is not changed sufficiently. Iam sure we should wait a new hype around crypto currencies that will cause new tremendous demand but actually I do not know when it will happen. I am observing the crypto market and I do not see any demand increasing instead crypto assets are in stagnation or in a downtrend
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I see a lot of people that are hoarding 100% of their bitcoins, because they believe cutting off the supply, would be enough to increase the price.

Would it not be better, if we increased the demand by increasing Bitcoin awareness and convincing more merchants to offer Bitcoin payments?

A 100% hoarding strategy is more harmful, because it cancels all the good work that was done to get merchants to accept Bitcoin as a payment option. A merchant will stop accepting Bitcoin, if their is no demand or transactions being generated for their business from the Bitcoin payment side.

We should actively encourage local merchants to start accepting bitcoins and then we should start supporting them.

Just buy back the bitcoins that you spend and you will be fine or use money that you would not have hoarded and buy the goods or service with bitcoins.

Adopt a 80% hoarding and 20% spending strategy and we will see a massive increase in Bitcoin adoption  Cool  
That's not how things work. You can't just focus more on one thing. We don't live in a world that has perfectly elastic supply or a world of perfectly inelastic demand. This won't make sense to you,if you haven't learnt Economics.

If you focus on demand more, then we will be forced in a situation where demand drops and supply increases until they crossover at a point called equilibrium which would decide the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity. Same applies to supply.

Crypto-economics is different than normal economics, so things can be more complicated than what I said.
Agreed 100%! It is indeed glaring to everyone how complex things are in this space and for the fact that most investors see it more as an investment and would rather hold than spend considering the level at which the value can reach eventually has made it more of a speculative asset than for it to be used as a currency.

We also cannot expect things to happen overnight, as all these things will be a gradual process until we achieve equilibrium, and this is where the idea of having a somewhat less volatile value will come in, but we all know it is actually not that easy and like you said, it is really easier said than done.
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@op that will depend on you . if you are an investor or trader then you need to focus on the supply of the coin before you buy them because some people say that if a coin has a less supply there is high chance that those coin can increase and pump more when compared to the coins that have a lot of supply .

but if you are a worker and only depending on the value of btc , then it is obvious that you want more demand because the higher the demand the higher the price will also get by cryptos .
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For me, I wanted to focus on demand so that I can put the product at higher prices
newbie
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We will be much focusing on the demand of cryptocurrency ,because if we talk of supply there are many new launched tokens and altcoins in the market , so there is no problem with regards to narket supply because of the altcoins flooding in the market cap now, so the demand for customers and investors are much to be focus as of now.
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for me, both are important because even their is enough supply but no demands the result is fluctuation although it could help some investors to invest more but what about those are waiting for the high price?when their is big demand,their is a need of big supply too meaning,both will go together
Exactly.Both should increase together.If there are more demands already,so more investors will make investments and it needs a big amount of supply too.I think both should work together hand in hand so we can expect a positive outcome in the end.

I get your point. If need stability supply and demand should increase or balance and its called economic equilibrium where in supply and demand meet at a certain point but if you want the price to go higher you need a bigger demand and i would say limited supply. The scarcity of a certain product will drive the price to go higher when you have a demand on that. Maybe supply and demand is so important but I do think Demand makes a difference.
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for me, both are important because even their is enough supply but no demands the result is fluctuation although it could help some investors to invest more but what about those are waiting for the high price?when their is big demand,their is a need of big supply too meaning,both will go together
Exactly.Both should increase together.If there are more demands already,so more investors will make investments and it needs a big amount of supply too.I think both should work together hand in hand so we can expect a positive outcome in the end.
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for me, both are important because even their is enough supply but no demands the result is fluctuation although it could help some investors to invest more but what about those are waiting for the high price?when their is big demand,their is a need of big supply too meaning,both will go together
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For me both are needed. Because if we can see supply is very low, then this coins price should go very high within short time. Also if we can see demand is very high, then there have lot of chance for price rise. So we need to focus both demand and supply.

In my own opinion, demand is more important because in this way the price will increase as well if there is a high demand on the market in a specific coin.
We cannot do anything about the supply especially when we are talking about bitcoin, so its better for us to focus on the demand because its given that the supply of bitcoin is limited and when we are focusing on the demand, the price will become higher.
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I see a lot of people that are hoarding 100% of their bitcoins, because they believe cutting off the supply, would be enough to increase the price.

Would it not be better, if we increased the demand by increasing Bitcoin awareness and convincing more merchants to offer Bitcoin payments?

A 100% hoarding strategy is more harmful, because it cancels all the good work that was done to get merchants to accept Bitcoin as a payment option. A merchant will stop accepting Bitcoin, if their is no demand or transactions being generated for their business from the Bitcoin payment side.

We should actively encourage local merchants to start accepting bitcoins and then we should start supporting them.

Just buy back the bitcoins that you spend and you will be fine or use money that you would not have hoarded and buy the goods or service with bitcoins.

Adopt a 80% hoarding and 20% spending strategy and we will see a massive increase in Bitcoin adoption  Cool  

I strongly believe that on what you suggest is a good idea. Sharing the information about how and what are the usage of Bitcoin will help the demand increase. Hoarding would only escalate when thing goes the other way. The technology that Bitcoin has offered is what people should know and not what the price it has.
legendary
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Well considering on a business perspective, accepting bitcoin as a payment is definitely risk with its volatile value. Not to mention the transaction speed, business owners are at a double-edged sword if they accept bitcoin as an alternative payment.
The risk of volatility and everything else you state can be countered simply by using a third party payment gateway to take care of storage and conversion to fiat. Merchants don't have to deal with Bitcoin if they don't want to.

Some payment gateways give you the freedom to also partly have your sales transactions converted to fiat, but that's probably not a smart thing to do since merchants aren't supposed to use Bitcoin as speculative vehicle.

In other words, the problem isn't Bitcoin, but more so the overall ignorance. If merchants know that there is a great way to hedge volatility risks, there probably would be more places where we could spend Bitcoin right now.
legendary
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It is easier said than done, because a lot of people would be very reluctant to spend any bitcoins when the price is very low.

Since 2017 a lot of speculators have started to invest in Bitcoin and their sole purpose is to maximize their profits. They could

care less about merchant adoption and even considering spending some of their coins. We should focus more on a 50/50

percentage split in our efforts to grow demand and also to limit the supply. Now, I am not saying spending 50% of your

coins, but rather focussing more on spreading Bitcoin awareness.  Grin

I thought OP meant holding 80% and spending 20%. No? No one would advise spending 80% nowadays, when the price is so low. But I absolutely agree with you on focusing more on spreading Bitcoin awareness. We need much more people using Bitcoin for its stability because right now most part of BTC is still in hands of a few people and those people can easily manipulate the price. With more adopters BTC will be reallocated among many users each of whom will be holding amounts too small to be able to manipulate the price.
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For me both are needed. Because if we can see supply is very low, then this coins price should go very high within short time. Also if we can see demand is very high, then there have lot of chance for price rise. So we need to focus both demand and supply.

In my own opinion, demand is more important because in this way the price will increase as well if there is a high demand on the market in a specific coin.
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I prefer demand even though supply is also very useful for smooth sales. But without a lot of demand sales will not succeed. Supply can be tricked if the demand is high total supply can be added again but not for demand because this comes from people who are interested in buying it.
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Because of the many coins that are in the market now ,then we can say that thete are plenty of supply of tokens and coins in the market ,so we will focus on the demand of the customers and investors for wr have already the plenty of supply of coins in the market.
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Yes of course HODLing is good and eventually would initiate price increase but, if no one buys, the market price will not grow and would sometimes dip more due to panic sell off, as some investors want to save their invested money in crypto. So its better also to improve the demands or any businesses should be open and will accept bitcoin as a mode of payment in order to keep the market going and become healthier in the long run.

We need demand because we know that supply is limited and even if we are hoarding it, there will be a tendency that the current holders of it will sell off some and then buy back again if the price would be cheaper but then other people or those who doesn't know about bitcoin that a digital currency is existing so it would be more advantageous for us if we increase the awareness of the people regarding bitcoin by spending it and promoting it so that demand would increase then.

Hoarding actually wont make bitcoin grow further, it can help people to avoid panic sell but can't make bitcoin grow, the correct way to make bitcoin grow is by creating the awareness like OP said and asked people to invest in bitcoin, but we can't asked local shop to accept crypto, because its not giving benefit to the store if the price keep on fluctuative, and some government won't allowed crypto being used for transaction payment, to make bitcoin into healthy currency the demand and supply need to be balance

When people refuse to sell what they are holding then there is a tendency as well that there will be big dump that will happen in the future because once the price goes down, there is a tendency that it would become a major sell off and the holders will panic causing a big red candle and it would have a domino effect until such time that sellers are exhausted so it would be better that there would still be volume in trading which is buying and selling so that there is an organic growth.

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Supply and demand are interrelated. both are unity in trade, but demand is more important because they will support rising market prices.
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I see a lot of people that are hoarding 100% of their bitcoins, because they believe cutting off the supply, would be enough to increase the price.

Would it not be better, if we increased the demand by increasing Bitcoin awareness and convincing more merchants to offer Bitcoin payments?

A 100% hoarding strategy is more harmful, because it cancels all the good work that was done to get merchants to accept Bitcoin as a payment option. A merchant will stop accepting Bitcoin, if their is no demand or transactions being generated for their business from the Bitcoin payment side.

We should actively encourage local merchants to start accepting bitcoins and then we should start supporting them.

Just buy back the bitcoins that you spend and you will be fine or use money that you would not have hoarded and buy the goods or service with bitcoins.

Adopt a 80% hoarding and 20% spending strategy and we will see a massive increase in Bitcoin adoption  Cool  

Now there are many proposals, you need to pay attention to demand.
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I see a lot of people that are hoarding 100% of their bitcoins, because they believe cutting off the supply, would be enough to increase the price.

Would it not be better, if we increased the demand by increasing Bitcoin awareness and convincing more merchants to offer Bitcoin payments?

A 100% hoarding strategy is more harmful, because it cancels all the good work that was done to get merchants to accept Bitcoin as a payment option. A merchant will stop accepting Bitcoin, if their is no demand or transactions being generated for their business from the Bitcoin payment side.

We should actively encourage local merchants to start accepting bitcoins and then we should start supporting them.

Just buy back the bitcoins that you spend and you will be fine or use money that you would not have hoarded and buy the goods or service with bitcoins.

Adopt a 80% hoarding and 20% spending strategy and we will see a massive increase in Bitcoin adoption  Cool  

Will booth of this are needed in cryptocurrency investment,the demand anf the supply because these two are always together to create a good investment,otherwise if more demand in the market,the more supply its needed and vice versa also thats if more supply of crypto coins,its better have a great demand,but in this situation now more supply now in the exchange market and lack of investor demands of its crypto coins thats why the market price value going dump.
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