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The price keeps skyrocketing, so people hoard or buy\n3.

The price keeps skyrocketing, so people hoard or buy\n4.

The price keeps skyrocketing, so people hoard or buy\n2.

If you hoard knowledge or hide it in e-mails or IRC logs you're not helping anybody.

Otherwise there'd be no incentive to invest, people would just hoard assets instead of putting them to productive use.

At least that way I won't have a whole hoard of internet forensic scientists desperately trying to figure out how it was all my fault.

If currency appreciates on its own, people will want to hoard it, and will only spend it on things they deem highly valuable.

The price keeps skyrocketing, so people hoard or buyetc... it all works out until it doesn't... it's long overdue for a major correction

No mammal simply hoards every calorie it can get without homeostatic feedback.

And in other stories, blogs and comments, we hear that Apple takes 80% of the mobile industry's profits and about the high margins on iProducts and the $100B+ cash hoard that they have.

Tl;dr: The soaring value of bitcoin forces those holding currency to hoard it. The Bitcoin economy has, in effect, experienced massive deflation.

This just reminds me how horribly stifling it is to the entirety of science that so many people love hoarding bricks of gold in underground vaults rather than use it for productive purposes.

Survival incentivizes balance -- hoarding a calorie means you don't spend that calorie today on something else that would aid your reproductive success.

The argument of most economists today is that currency should not appreciate because it encourages hoarding what is essentially a useless non-good, it's just a token for convenience of value transfer.

But at that point, we're talking about a cryptocurrency equivalent of real grown-up money, which would sort of kill its appeal to a lot of the folks who rant on about the evils of fractional reserve banking and hoard gold because they think it has some sort of mystical inherent value -- the sort of folks who invest in what William Gibson termed "Dunning-Krueger-rands".