To be honest I don't care about either definition of money based on norms and definitions of society. I'm a scientist, and the universal currency of this universe is energy. Bitcoin is backed by pure energy stored in unbreakable asymmetric encryption. laws of nature
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Replying to @BitcoinBiology @Tom_Scribbler and
This is false Bitcoin is not "backed by energy" in the sense that other currencies are backed by gold You cannot take your Bitcoin and trade it back for energy -- a BTC does not entitle you to the megawatt-hours of the ton of coal it took to mine it It entitles you to nothing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BitcoinBiology and
This is why Bitcoin is pernicious, it's a meaningless token with *no underlying value* and *no legal rights or guarantees bestowed on the holder* And it does not *store* energy or *contain* energy the way ridiculous statements like this imply it does It simply *uses* energy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BitcoinBiology and
Every new Bitcoin mined and every Bitcoin transaction *burns up stored physical energy* that is irretrievably lost and can never be used again as a result Second Law of Thermodynamics, Mr. Scientist -- all it does is rapidly increase the entropy of the system
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Replying to @BitcoinBiology @Tom_Scribbler and
Right, nobody could safely and securely send money overseas before Bitcoin, international transactions of any kind were a terrifying gamble until 2017 or so Dear God listen to yourself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BitcoinBiology and
It's more about being able to send money w/o using a custodian or third party. The cost to transport gold is far far higher. Fiat can be clawed back or amended centrally. Missing the point of how and why bitcoin is cheaper.
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Replying to @stephanlivera @BitcoinBiology and
I am, because it is, in fact, not cheaper
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Replying to @arthur_affect @stephanlivera and
Very few people in a position to send or receive $1 million share your hilarious paranoia about the government seizing it from you, and the ones for whom that paranoia is justified and Bitcoin has a genuine use case are not people who have my sympathy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BitcoinBiology and
Billions of people on earth live under authoritarian regimes, and even those of us who don't, are subject to inflation. You may not sympathise with those people, but clearly it's growing in use over the last 12 yrs. So whether you like it or not, you'll have to deal with it.
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Nah BTC is only specifically useful for routing around the barrier of lacking access to a banking institution The volatility makes it a completely insane solution for actually *storing* money in it, especially for someone with little cash cushion
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Replying to @arthur_affect @stephanlivera and
And if you're not the well-heeled wealthy kind of criminal (i.e. the kind who's most likely a bad person who hurts people) Bitcoin gives you very little security People badly misunderstand this -- the whole "trustless" concept of Bitcoin means the ledger is fucking public
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