Just my 2p or 6 e**-7 bitcoin worth.
If might be a bit early to say. It's only existed little more than a decade.
Personally I strongly suspect that it will have a value in 30 years. But the Euro is only 10 years older. Will that exist in 30 years?
What are the arguments for either?
There are however SERIOUS issues in buying bitcoin for moorfield juniors. Everyone is going to point to the guy who dropped his hard drive in his bin and lost millions. However it's a very valid point. Who keeps the bitcoin, where and how will it be passed on.
I have a really tiny amount with Paypal. It could be stolen. I intend eventually holding bitcoin myself (self sovereign). But how will my beneficiaries get it when I die. I don't expect to live forever.
That side of things is a minefield. Give it to the children and if they lose the key, it's gone. Keep it and, ignoring IHT issues, how do they get the keys. It's intentionally like cash (in a hole in the ground, somewhere).
Of course moorfield juniors may be more advanced than I read into your post. I would not hesitate to ask one of my kids if I could give her some bitcoin. The other two, mature though they are, I simply wouldn't. All three have unit trusts and two have equity ISA accounts that they manage.
If you can't ask and expect a sensible answer, then I would argue that bitcoin might be a bad idea, regardless of it's intrinsic merits.
Review the situation in a couple of years for them. In the meantime I strongly recommend learning as much about it as you can. I strongly recommend this book (which is cheap in ebook form).
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Basics-Bitco ... C72&sr=1-1Of course it's out of date. Things are changing so fast. I listen to "what bitcoin did" podcast, which many might find irritating. However it helps take the pulse of things, though he is too much into football to be a kindred spirit.