The "intrinsic value" question was my personal #Bitcoin Rubicon that stopped me for so long as a recovering gold bug. The Socratic Method helped me.

The question I asked myself was "does the TCP/IP protocol have "intrinsic value"? And by extention, does the internet itself have "intrinsic value"? My answer was definitively yes, but it was not necessarily tangible. I wrestled with this for awhile...The Bitcoin protocol is the same, but it has a price attached.

I bought in size the next day and haven't stopped.

I should have just listened to more episodes of Bitcoin Audible...it may have saved me time, but not the proof of work!