Store of Value
A store of value is an asset, commodity, or currency that maintains its worth and can be exchanged without decreasing in value.
Land was the main historic store of value in the past. Gold and Bitcoin are the digital equivalents of land in the 21st century.
Assets that store value have revealed to be popular lately due to ramping inflation which devalues currencies.
Unlike money, these 3 unique assets withstand inflation and aren’t influenced by the government’s actions.
Finite VS Not Finite
For an asset class to be a store of value it has to be limited.
There’s a limited supply of gold in the world and it is getting harder and harder to mine more of it.
The same is true for Bitcoin, which won’t have more than 21 million coins in the world.
Land works the same way.
So, why do gold and Bitcoin seem to be more popular than land as an investment?
Because investing in land is not easy. It takes time, money, and a minimum amount of knowledge to be able to do so.
Valuable
There are many finite resources on earth. Water and rock, for example, are also finite.
So why aren’t they as valuable as gold, land, and Bitcoin?
Because you can’t do as much with them as you can with the other assets.
Bitcoin is valuable because it is decentralized and can be used to move a vast amount of wealth from one corner of the world to another.
Gold is valuable because it is shiny, malleable, and is used in the technology industry.
Finally, land is valuable because we do everything with it: growing food (farm fields and grazing), building houses, building shops and entertainment infrastructures, forests, etc.
In a world with a growing population, the price of land will keep on expanding as demand will increase.
Conclusion
In times of inflation, investors should seek to protect their capital by investing into finite assets whose value increases as money’s value decreases.
Land, gold and Bitcoin are great assets to do so.
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