Is the #Goldback a good store of value? Store of value can be ranked according to the six following properties:
- Scarcity: No capped supply but restrained by gold availability and capacity of production.
- Stability: good stability relatively to an inflation index. Has seen occasional and short term periods of high volatility due to surge in demand (during Covid).
- Durability: good durability, hard to loose but not indestructible. Can be replaced for new #goldbacks.
- Portability: similar to cash. Not good for online payments and cross border migration (unless using a custodian).
- Divisibility: correct, but not flexible and lower denomination will keep increasing with the price.
- Acceptability: growing network but not high rate of acceptance yet. Still higher rate of acceptance locally than crypto by merchants who accept neither of them.
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Is #Cash a good store of value? Store of value can be ranked according to the six following properties:
- Scarcity: no-capped supply and no predictability of the supply over time.
- Stability: continuously loose value against an inflation index but quite stable over short period of time.
- Durability: good durability, hard to lose, not indestructible.
- Portability: good portability, except for online payments and cross border migration.
- Divisibility: good divisibility but not flexible. Loss of value against inflation guarantees that current divisibility will suffice.
- Acceptability: great acceptability within national borders except for online payments. Used as a unit of account.