Bitcoin Itself Is NOT a Store of Value Bitcoin only becomes a store of value when compared to the FIAT system. In the Fiat system, we’re forced to look for investments or protection that at least keep up with inflation. In a system where Bitcoin is the unit of account and medium of exchange, that need for investment or protection disappears. Bitcoin simply plays the role that money is supposed to play, restoring the value of what we’re able to buy with it and preserving, over time, the value stored in goods, products, and services, which was taken from us by FIAT “money.” I’m hopeful that Bitcoin will stop being seen as an investment or store of value and start being seen simply as money. That would basically mean the Fiat system has collapsed.