&gt; Are you listening to yourself? You just compared 20 years to 2 months, and they were approximately equal. That&#x27;s terrible.<p>You compared them, and your comparison was technically incorrect, so I pointed it out. Price discovery in new class of asset vs the premeditated inflation of a centrally managed fiat currency are different, but it was not I who nominated the two things to compare nor the two periods over which to compare them, nor made a technically incorrect statement about the result of such a comparison.<p>&gt; Currency is not supposed to behave like an investment. For it to be useful to real humans that depend on it for living day to day, it cannot behave like that<p>A cursory glance at the historical ubiquity and utility of non fiat currencies would suggest that this is not correct. A simple observation that the inevitable fate of every flat currency that has ever existed has been demise would do so more strongly.<p>&gt; You don&#x27;t need to pretend that it takes a very complex understanding to recognize an unstable financial instrument. Also, trying to insult people into accepting your views very rarely works.<p>Giving me a source for a narrow singular slice of data on the bitcoin price does not negate or address the core point I made about the long term trend being dramatically upward, not allowing for cherry picked time window periods in which things did not align with that trend.<p>I do not care that you don&#x27;t accept my views, I care that you make flatly wrong statements based on shallow knowledge and smugly pretend towards understanding and in so doing contribute to the ridiculous smokescreen regarding this particular topic in this particular forum.<p>Frankly I don&#x27;t care if people like or dislike bitcoin, I&#x27;m simply sick of the lies, falsehoods, and other generally misleading junk that passes for information on it here. Perhaps I should attempt a technically correct assassination of the project simply so people who object on other grounds can at least avoid parroting flat abject falsehoods.<p>&gt; If all currencies collapse, there is little evidence anyone would accept bitcoin instead<p>In all the aforementioned cases of the inevitable death of fiat currency, trade and commerce did not simply cease, non fiat currencies took over. There is no reason to assume a change to this pattern.