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My dollars keep losing value too. Since bitcoin came out in 2009 my dollars have lost 28% of their value to inflation[0].

Dollars aren't a stable store of value either. It's baked in that the fed aims for low but positive inflation.

Meanwhile, the S&P 500 is up nearly 500% since 2009.

That's shameless cherrypicking) We can also say that S&P only returned 51% since the start of this century, adjusted for inflation.

Wasn't trying to cherrypick, I used his date. My point is just that currency is a an effective medium of exchange, not an effective store of value.

dollars didn't fall 80% in a year, unlike bitcoin

They fell 99% in 99 years, unlike Bitcoin.

dollar fell in 100% of years