Let us assume that bitcoin is a share of a company...

[LiteCoinGuy]

13 tech IPOs compared: How much a $10,000 investment would be worth today

http://www.businessinsider.de/tech-ipos ... ?r=US&IR=T



What do you think? A fair assumption?

[Skin_in_the_game]

Yes the problem is that today companies ipo too late for retail investors. That's why Facebook will never make you as much as even a yahoo no matter how much it grows. On the other hand Bitcoin was ipo'd at inception. Can't do better than this.

Another thing arguing in favor of Bitcoin's investment today is that even at a market cap of 5 billions USD, it's theoretical ceiling or "adresseable market" is nearly unlimited. Ofcourse this is low probability but Bitcoins could absorb the value of cash as well as saving accounts as well as the store of value part of other assets like Gold, Real estate, bonds. Not only it's still more probable/easier to see Bitcoin to be a 10x or more than for any other assets as the marketshare is still very low and the network is still in early stages. But It can potentially go much farther.

[Denker]

The Bitcoin Blockchain is the most secure Blockchain out there.
And I believe that every serious crypto startup will use/have to use Bitcoin in one or the other because with that they will have maximum security.
And therefore instead of investing directly in one of all these companies, which would include high risk because many of them might fail, it is smart to own a few bitcoins, as those indeed would represent kind of a share of these future companies which will be successful .
Simple words: when you buy Bitcoin you automatically get a share in all these others technologies/tech companies that are/will be being build on top of Bitcoin.

[LiteCoinGuy]

Yes the problem is that today companies ipo too late for retail investors. That's why Facebook will never make you as much as even a yahoo no matter how much it grows. On the other hand Bitcoin was ipo'd at inception. Can't do better than this.

Another thing arguing in favor of Bitcoin's investment today is that even at a market cap of 5 billions USD, it's theoretical ceiling or "adresseable market" is nearly unlimited. Ofcourse this is low probability but Bitcoins could absorb the value of cash as well as saving accounts as well as the store of value part of other assets like Gold, Real estate, bonds. Not only it's still more probable/easier to see Bitcoin to be a 10x or more than for any other assets as the marketshare is still very low and the network is still in early stages. But It can potentially go much farther.

bitcoin is the first invention where everyone on earth (with an internet connection) could own a part of it from day one (IPO). each part is equal and the supply is limited. best example to compare it to would be a Domain in the early 1990s but even that is not exacly the same.

but lets assume bitcoin is a share of a company. what will happen when that company never makes a stocksplit?