Gasoline and food prices are rising. Why is this happening?
While there are many explanations, the one which applies most to bitcoin and crypto is gasoline and food production transitioning from being inflationary to deflationary in nature. Supply of fossil fuels and food has shifted from abundance into scarcity and prices have followed accordingly.
Market prices are rising for reasons identical to HODL demogrpahics predicting the price of 1 bitcoin would reach $1 million dollars.
The purchasing power of money is also devaluating due to inflation, the opposite of the model bitcoin is built upon.
While current market conditions are trending in a direction opposite of ideal. The direction of trends gives us many examples to settle inflation vs deflation debates which have raged across the cryptosphere for years.
While knowledge and life lessons can't be converted into food to feed the hungry or gasoline to fuel the needy on their daily drives to work. It can serve as a foundation for building a better financial world in the future, to prevent these types of crisis from occurring.
It can also offer solutions for high prices. To bring prices down, we must simply adjust markets to make gas and food inflationary assets once again. Supply and demand can offer answers to many of life's problems. It definitely carries legitimate uses and value in terms of real world application.