A smart guy buys property which has utility worth and hopefully far smaller percentage costs.
A house can cost a surprising amount of money to maintain, and this is the result if you don't keep spending money on it.

Bitcoin costs nothing to maintain. Keep hodling long enough and it will give you a good return.
Well sure houses cost but that looks like a cheaply made one in a hurricane area on the coast. Alot of DIY required if you wanted a cheap place to live on that one. Alot of maintenance is about not letting it rot, if you live there its not as big a job or unfamiliar as fixing a v12 engine might be. A cost of time and labour certainly. Any asset costs in insurance and BTC is a secure system so that maybe thats a good point in its own favour (vs costing of banks etc).
However to say BTC costs nothing is clearly not the case, the miners have great costs ongoing. Its stated as a real problem or a great influence in future price fundamentals. The future of BTC relys on technology and energy efficiency to some extent. Some will say POS will win the war vs POW because its cheaper.
I do think every economy is driven at its heart by efficiency, every price you can ever think of will be undercut by a competitor in a free market. They undercut using efficiency and scales of economy. So who is the threat to Bitcoin when considered this way. Dollar is not efficient imo but there is other FIAT
I was saying this on the Petro thread, not sure who that OP is exactly. Forget your enemies and the sanctions whatever is targetted as the problem. A bad economy will destroy itself from within like a wheel with bad bearings. I do expect BTC has to keep improving to enable growth which allows miners to keep making a profit, it cant be ignored. We sink if we dont swim
https://news.bitcoin.com/venezuela-orders-government-services-to-accept-any-cryptocurrency/
Let Ripple cripple for a while. Banky coin does not want to die 
coinbase ripple listing. Is it true? If the price will fly high
20000pages is coming ,hope when the 20000 pages coming with the price of $20000, that will be awesome.
Have faith, never underestimate the power of the Wall Observer ThreadThing with Ripple is there is always more supply the company has available in a queue waiting to release. Price transparency is not there, its like sailing with icebergs or something. Market cap will rise perhaps but it'll remain mostly under central control of 'the company'. One for the fast footed traders to worry about, I'm out