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Gil Luria

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

Because the instability of that system, there's a lot of people that mine Bitcoin and have Bitcoin inside Iran.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

If wealth starts escaping from Iran, that could create movements, more demand to move Bitcoin, more demand to buy and sell Bitcoin.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

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Marketplace All-in-One
Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

The ward gets dragged out to a point where oil rises very much and the economy stagnates.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

Again, people run away from their main assets, stocks, bonds, real estate, and they may run towards more assets like gold and Bitcoin.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

And if there's more inflation in the U.S.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

and that deflates the U.S.

Marketplace All-in-One
Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

dollar, then there may be movement towards assets like Bitcoin or gold that can protect you from that.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

Yeah, so because Bitcoin exists outside of the government, then if one Bitcoin is worth a certain number of dollars and the dollars are worth less because of inflation in the dollars, there's no inflation in Bitcoin.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

There will only be 21 million Bitcoin left.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

So in relative terms, when the dollar is depreciated, a Bitcoin is worth more in terms of purchasing power.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

Yeah, there's a core group within Bitcoin followers that believes Bitcoin should be all of money, that it should become a currency.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

And what they argue is, again, there's a fixed amount, so it can't be inflated.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

So the government can't charge you that inflation tax.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

It's global.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

You can use it anywhere, move money anywhere.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

It's divisible into very, very small units.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

So you can use it for small transactions as well as large transactions.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

And there's very little cost to operating it because it's operated by a competitive group of processors that will charge a very low fee, even when all the Bitcoin is mine.

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Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

So it makes for better money than we currently have.