If I can buy a car with seashells, that's what I'll call it. Makes the seller look like a dweeb for making such a bad trade.
Same with trading paper that's literally on fire for the hardest money humankind has ever created.
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But it's not a car. It's money.
You're making a trade for a better KIND of money. Money being an economic good rather than a consumer good (a car).
So I feel like "buy bitcoin" leads newbies to misunderstanding it drom the getgo. You don't invest to sell back to dolllars like a stock. If you do trade back to dollars at a gain that's still just a trade and not a purchase of dollars or other fiat.
You can't live in or drive a bitcoin.
The utility of Bitcoin is to buy it with a good (dollars) or a service in order to sell it for a good or service in the future, preferably with its value increased with time.
Saying you're not buying Bitcoin is just incorrect. Ever trade has a buyer and seller, where the buyer and seller are also the seller and buyer, respectively. You're buying dollars when you sell a good and selling dollars when buying a good.
I guess my contention is that there's a distinction between buyer and seller and they cannot be mutually inclusive. I feel that the seller always receives the monetary good and buyer takes the consumer good.
If no distinction between the two exists, then money doesn't exist.
I should check with the Austrian perspective on this.
Appreciate your civility nonetheless. 😎
It's not always the case. I have to pay rent to my landlord, so it's perfectly valid to say that I have to buy dollars from my employer in exchange for labor so that I can sell them to my landlord in exchange for housing.
The commodity used as money has no special status besides being the most saleable good in this situation, a medium of exchange that everyone involved is willing to trade other goods for.
Here's what llamaGPT says.