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by oleganza 1843 days ago
Not quite a fair comparison. Consider how much real estate is used to "park money" in large cities, which in turn leads to artificially higher prices and shortages of housing? What other resources are abused as money substitutes, making corresponding markets less liquid or less predictable? When Bitcoin reaches sufficient capitalization and maturity the landscape of money is going to become simpler while the markets in stocks/real estate/commodities become more fair and efficient. This may have huge implications for overall efficiency in the economies.