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Early on, people are unconvinced by a nascent innovation, so are willing to pay less. As the network effect grows and the innovation becomes indispensable, they are willing to pay more.


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Holding is using. There's a reason people like PTJ and now MicroStrategy just hold it. And a lot of it.


Holding for greed or risk diversification isn't using in the classical use of the term using - it's using it to mitigate potential risk and/or to earn wealth if society is tricked into using this mechanism that unnecessarily transfers wealth from late adopters to earlier adopters.


>using it to mitigate potential risk

Sounds like using to me.

>earn wealth if society is tricked

You might want to read the reasons PTJ and MicroStrategy are holding it.


Who is PTJ and what is MicroStrategy?



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