Which would you rather have? Assume you can't sell anything for at least 2 years.
Bitcoin is very rocky, its currency goes up and down frequently and it has a lot of competition. Although I do believe crypto currency is the future, I don't know if Bitcoin will be the future. Amazon however, is a huge company that is growing everyday. Although it's becoming somewhat a monopoly, if it ever got broken to by the government, Amazon would still be very valuable. Also the likelyhood it would be broken up in the next two years is very few. Brings up the point that the value of Bitcoin cannot be predicted for the next two years. Just my two cents, idk.
100 shares of amazon, can sell weekly calls for an easy $2000 a week
Bitcoin has capped out. Seriously doubt we'll be seeing 2017 prices again. Amazon isn't going anywhere but up for a long time
Bitcoin is derives it's value from the trust if users in the network, no fundamental reason for that to continue if a better crypto system comes around, . Amazon at least has a shit ton of physical assets, so it is difficult fundamentally for any second Amazon to become as big.
It's not from trust of users, it's from hashing power of miners. Hashing power -> provable security -> trust
The trust of users is inherent in that. You need to trust that the mining power is plentiful so that transactions can continue to be verified at a good pace, and that the mining power remains decentralized as other crypto currencies rise, so that the ledger itself remains decentralized.
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