Brock Pierce said #Bitcoin is not a currency, as it's too expensive to actually use in transactions. He said Bitcoin's real use is as a store of value; gold 2.0. But if it's too expensive to transact in, and unlike gold has no other actual uses, what value does it have to store?
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Nothing has inherent value, everything is subjective anyway.
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Consumables.
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still subjective
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still subjective
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Not if you want to survive, unless that want is subjective, which, I mean, sure I guess.
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If a drowning man wants to survive, then...

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yeah like that’s still clearly subjective
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Pretty sure reason isn't gonna work here, Peter makes money selling gold, and 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'
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Oh yeah. Brock Pierce. Now there's an authority whose august opinions must be carefully parsed and taken seriously, in light of his towering intellect and the deep impression his works have made on the world.
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Scarcity doesn’t need to be physical
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Ummm isn't golds value gonna seriously be fucked when space mining operations are up and running and Debeers controls monetary policy?
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