How Does Bitcoin Have Value?
A utility of Bitcoin as a store of value is strongly attributed to its capped supply at 21 million BTC. This along with its inflexible liquid supply drives it's demand and thus its value.
Lyn Alden commented, "I initially covered Bitcoin in an article in autumn 2017, and was neutral-to-mildly-bearish for the intermediate term, and took no position. The technology was well-conceived, but I had concerns about euphoric sentiment and market dilution. I neither claimed that it had to go lower, nor viewed it bullishly, and merely stepped aside to keep watching. However, I turned bullish on Bitcoin in April 2020 in my research service at about $6,900/BTC and went long. It had indeed underperformed many other asset classes from autumn 2017 into spring 2020, but from that point, a variety of factors turned strongly in its favor. I then wrote a public article about it in July when it was at $9,200/BTC, further elaborating on why I am bullish on Bitcoin."
A utility of Bitcoin as a store of value is strongly attributed to its capped supply at 21 million BTC. This along with its inflexible liquid supply drives it's demand and thus its value.
Bitcoin halving is the term used to identify the block reward subsidy schedule. According to the Bitcoin blockchain protocol, the Bitcoin block reward is cut in half every 210,000 blocks.
Bitcoin’s baked-in scarcity makes it valuable. Bitcoin’s algorithmically determined rate of increase makes it scarce when demand for the bitcoin cryptocurrency is rising, ta less so when it is falling.