Perfect analogy. It especially hits when trying to explain the utility of stablecoins, tokens, or smart contracts to someone who only sees crypto as a store of value.

It's trying to explain why a DEX is better because you hold your own keys and don't need to trust a company, or how decentralized lending is more transparent and can't just freeze your funds, to someone whose only metric is "number go up." Their framework is digital gold, but we're talking about a digital economy.

You can't explain why digital cash (~stablecoins) is better for a coffee than a gold bar - you just have to pay with it :)

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