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I think much of BTC's valuation come from expectations that money velocity and market penetration will increase.

EDIT: Sorry I meant to say the velocity will decrease.

A higher money velocity => lower BTC/USD, but yes, the current price implies a huge future growth of the bitcoin economy. This is what sam is saying and I agree. I happen to think that we will not see that growth/adoption, but that is a different question.

Oops, yeah, I meant the other way around.

There's no obvious reason why BTC velocity should go lower than USD velocity. If anything, its electronic nature and potential for fast settlement times should indicate a much higher velocity than USD M2.

>Note that sam's point about merchants immediately converting BTC back to USD serves to increase the money velocity (perhaps by >10x).

If this changed, it could at least get closer to the velocity of usd.

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