Sentences with phrase «as a speculative investment»

However, many see the tokens as a speculative investment.

So these folks argue that Bitcoin currently is rather used as a speculative investment vehicle than as a means of payment — a development that puts its price on a shaky ground and therefore forces the entire Bitcoin network to be at the mercy of wavering speculators.

The prospect of rising rates of return from agricultural commodities and from increases in land value boosts the attractiveness of agricultural land also as a speculative investment for rich individuals, large pension funds and state funds.

«Despite fulfilling most of the characteristics of a traditional fiat currency, cryptocurrencies are largely being utilized as speculative investment assets, leading to considerable volatility in their value.»

Benjamin Quinlan, the Chief Executives and Managing Partner of Quinlan Associates said to reporters that Bitcoin is utilized as speculative investment assets.

This problem is exacerbated by non-local buyers purchasing houses as speculative investments and not actually occupying them, a practice which further reduces housing affordability by removing housing stock from the market.

If someone wants to buy a house in Vancouver as a speculative investment, they should face heavy disincentives to do so — ideally heavy enough to dissuade them from doing it in all but exceptional cases.

In this week's post, we're going to continue talking about what I deem as speculative investments and get into Forex...

Bitcoin was developed as a decentralised global payment system; however, it has also been bought and sold in large volumes as a speculative investment.

What drove the demand was that in times of strife, Chinese households have been known to stockpile the more valuable bladders as speculative investments, on some occasions even trading them as currency.

But the thing is that the cryptocurrency market has so many twists and turns (after all, that's why there's so much potential in the coins as speculative investments) that even with all the data in the world on hand, there's no certainty that a split or hacking or news event won't derail your prediction one way or the other.

The notable successes of token sales as speculative investments could end up being the nail in their coffin, argues Noelle Acheson.

«It is likely that illicit bitcoins fell as a percentage of total volume entering conversion services due to the cryptocurrency's increasing popularity as a speculative investment as well as new laundering techniques,» the study says.

Bitcoin's track record as a speculative investment has not disappointed, either, with the value of bitcoin up 2,000 percent since the IRS first released its guidance, while daily transactions (an admittedly unscientific measure of bitcoin's use as a payment method) have merely doubled.

The aim is to promote the use of bitcoin in retail stores instead of as a speculative investment, he detailed.

In Europe and America, cryptocurrencies are held as speculative investments or as a means of making anonymous payments.

As speculative investments into Bitcoin and altcoins continue to trouble regulators worldwide, Korea has taken a hardline stance in recent months.

I see it as speculative investment.

These actions have led to increased demand for bitcoin both as a speculative investment and a means to move money out of China.

Cryptocurrencies are digital in nature, so investors see the opportunity in using these as speculative investments for the future.