{"id":525309,"date":"2025-12-07T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=775929"},"modified":"2025-12-07T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:30:07","slug":"why-bitcoin-isnt-a-digital-tulip-and-why-it-will-never-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/why-bitcoin-isnt-a-digital-tulip-and-why-it-will-never-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bitcoin Isn\u2019t a Digital Tulip \u2014 and Why It Will Never Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1280-x-720-en-blanco-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Why Bitcoin Is Not a Digital Tulip - and Why It Will Never Be\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Recent opinion pieces have drawn parallels between bitcoin and tulips because of the speculative frenzy surrounding the latter in the 1600s. I explain why those comparisons are unfair and why analyzing bitcoin solely as a store of value misses the point entirely. Bitcoin Is Not a Digital Tulip, Even if the NGU Thesis Has Stalled [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent opinion pieces have drawn parallels between bitcoin and tulips because of the speculative frenzy surrounding the latter in the 1600s. I explain why those comparisons are unfair and why analyzing bitcoin solely as a store of value misses the point entirely. Bitcoin Is Not a Digital Tulip, Even if the NGU Thesis Has Stalled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":525310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-525309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}