I just see it as a far more valuable asset to society than for it to be jumping and dropping so erratically. If history did continue to repeat its self like it did in the past where it dropped from $20k to $3k or whatever it was, I don’t think we could depend on it to be stable enough to replace gold for example, as predicted.
I'm not sure it is a valuable asset to society
yet though. It has no intrinsic value like gold and its scarcity is somewhat undermined by the proliferation of competing coins. There's no underlying money generation (like with a stock) so it's pricing seems to be purely speculative and confidence based which seems to be borne out by the volatile movements in price.
About the only legitimate use at the minute is buying stuff off the dark web which doesn't really lend itself to a stable pricing structure. Other than that it just seems to be bounced around by speculation and hodlers.
I'm not saying it won't settle down more over time but I just think that your argument could have been applied at any point in its history, and to-date, it would have always been wrong. I mean, at what point on this graph can you say "that's it, it's now too valuable to be jumping around and should settle down":
because I just don't see it (again,
yet).
My mate (who's incidentally just cashed out everything) was telling me that some more conventional investment organisations were putting some money into BTC as a result of the economic chaos this year and that drove up demand and price. By the same argument (he says) that means as things return to a more stable situation over the next 6-12mths, you'll see them come back out of BTC into conventional investments and prices will drop again.
In conclusion, I still have no f**king idea.