Bitcoin may become a global reserve instrument as individuals begin to use it both as a ledger for financial and informational assets.

Bitcoin has the potential to reduce business cycles through inelastic supply function.

The supply issuance of new currency units is governed by a mathematical algorithm rather than central bank monetary policy. No change in demand has an effect of the rate of this issuance, and therefore, makes the supply function of bitcoin inelastic. Fluctuations in demand have no effect on the supply schedule of bitcoin, instead willingness to pay is represented by floating denomination in national currency.

The mining difficulty algorithm is capable of self-adjusting to changes in the competition among mining pools. Interestingly, this represents one of the few forms of self-governance the bitcoin protocol has.

Austrian school of economic thought holds that the bust of a business cycle is inevitable, what should be avoided instead is an artificial and sometimes misleading boom in the market, which does no justice for representing health of the economy One of the major factors of facilitating a boom is credit expansion, opportunity for credit expansions in bitcoin is limited due to the difficulty of fractional reserve practices and quantitative easing (if such a thing can legitimately in bitcoin is another argument).

Bitcoin has the potential to make economic players less dependent upon others in the same or adjacent markets.

The accessibility requirements of bitcoin are incredibly low. Systems which are made open benefit tremendously from the network effect and bitcoin only requires a mobile device with internet connectivity. If users have a desire to conduct transactions over the bitcoin network with no need to acquire approval, it promises to potentially make each user less dependent on every other participant in system.

When individuals require no external permission, they are empowered. As long as one party does not control entire network, users remain largely independent and in control of their own economic livelihood.

Encryption has never before enabled economic assets (data assets as well) to be stored so inexpensively with such a high degree of security.

Peter Diamandis describes demonetization in his ‘exponential framework’ as one of the key stages. In regards to bitcoin this describes the demonetization of many aspects of our current financial system (banking fees, ATM fees, remittance fees, bank infrastructure, banking employee salaries). Bitcoin is demonetization of our current financial system because it can mitigate and eliminate these third-party requirements.

The technology of encryption makes, for the very first time, protection of our economic assets both very secure and very inexpensive. In truth, when bitcoin is used as it is designed to be used (as a relationship between you and your money with no requirement of trust), the chance of a successful hack is near 0. Encryption of the blockchain also provides the potential to secure and transmit information assets (as well as monetary), inexpensively with a high degree of security and transparency.

Conclusion

Bitcoin may continue to be increasingly used as a global reserve instrument for both economic and data assets because it potentially mitigates business cycles through an inelastic supply function, makes users less dependent upon adjacent participants in the economy, and allows a high degree of security at low cost due to advances in cryptography.

Bitcoin: The Trustless Network

If we are to create an application with the blockchain, perhaps some groundbreaking new innovation harnessing the invention of the bitcoin payment system, we must first understand the core solution that the technology brings and how that applies to our existing business model.

Among other things, the solution blockchain technology brings to the fold of information security is the elimination of trusted intermediaries in online transactions – a problem in computing science thought to be unsolvable. The value of conjuring up an eloquent solution to this problem cannot be understated.

With reliable decentralization, we can innovate on the promise of an open-source, trustless network. This innovation of the blockchain ledger introduces a business framework where the operational capacity of any application, which would otherwise have inherent risks due to centralization, is able to be highly decentralized. With centralization comes trust, and too much of it is often a liability.