How Bitshares is the perfect store of value?
With a market cap of several dozen of millions it will be a lot more volatile than Bitcoin.
Because it's not just an alt coin. This is the problem we have to deal with. A lot of people don't understand what Bitshares is and why it's a great store of value.
Bitshares is not just the BTS. It's BitUSD, it's BitBTC, it's BitGLD, it's a bunch of commodities which you can go long on, or short. You can short BTS or BitBTC. If the price of BTS is volatile you can save your wealth as BitUSD where it's not volatile. If it's going down compared to BTC then you can buy BitBTC in the Bitshares client itself.
Of course if you don't understand any of this stuff this is going to be the problem. Someone is going to need to blog about their trading experiences, we are going to need technical analysis.
For something like Bitcoin technical analysis doesn't work so well but I think for something like Bitshares technical analysis will play far greater role.
The initial market cap and volatility are irrelevant. What matters is what instruments you use in response. If you don't do anything then all the volatility early on is going to effect you because you're not actively using the instruments it provides to protect yourself.
But volatilily is good. Volatility effect only people with short term horizons or people who for some reasons need a stable unit of account.
When you hedge against volatily you are also hedging against winning money. Basically hedging volatility is for pussies (and portfolio manager, but maybe it's the same thing).
Early adopters of Bitshares won't care about volatility because they will be here for big profits.