Hi everyone :)
I just wanted to put a little idea out into the world today..
When i first got into bitcoin about 3 years ago, my plan was to save up all this cryptocurrency and wait for it go up to a really high price.. at this point in time i was going to cash out in a blaze of glory and retire to the Bahamas or something along those lines.
Although after spending the last few years researching bitcoin and crypto currency my thought patterns have changed a little.
Lets say.. tomorrow the bitcoin price goes to 1 MILLION.
We are all rich right? Time to cash out to fiat?
I for one, say no.
If tomorrow the price of bitcoin was indeed, 1 million - Everyone is going to cash out.
That means there needs to be enough buyers.. to pay 1 million for each bitcoin, and well that just isn't going to happen, not today anyhow.
What will happen is the price will continue to go down as more people sell off.
I would be willing to sell my bitcoin for 900k instead of a cool million.. if i had too. The price would plummet.. and the market would crash.
This is where i would like to propose a new way of thinking.
We don't need to cash out to fiat.
Why?
Why would you need stinky old cash money.. when you have beautiful bitcoin to spend! The only problem is.. right now not enough people are willing to accept bitcoin.
BUT.. lets say for example.. if you could buy a house in bitcoin? What if you had an ATM card.. that works just like your bank card.. why would you need fiat?
Now lets imagine.. people start buying houses in bitcoin.
Here in Sydney, Australia where i live.. the average price of a house is around 1 million.
How many houses are sold each day? A few i would presume.
Now what if just ONE house is sold per day, via BTC.
That's 1 million per day put into the BTC economy, only a small boost i can imagine.. but it would definitely affect the markets.
Now lets imagine.. 100 houses are bought per day using bitcoin. How about 1000?
Do you think that would affect the price of bitcoin.. and create a large demand of buyers?
My answer - Yes.
So all i wanted to say today was.. forget about cashing out to fiat. You won't need to, just get ready to buy your mansions with bitcoin.. it will make the market MASSIVE.
I have been meaning to write this article for weeks.. and just now i came across this link which got me motivated enough to get this article done!!
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@jrcornel/you-can-now-buy-an-apartment-in-dubai-for-bitcoins
What do you guys think?