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Yes.

Record-keeping is an important human endeavor. The more reliable and complete a set of records are, the more valuable they are.

Bitcoin is a system in which something valuable (energy) is exchanged for something else valuable (nearly immutable record keeping). The medium of this exchange is a token called “bitcoins” which happens to also be the scarcest, most secure, and most portable form of money ever discovered.

Because of these desirable aspects, this token (which can natively be used to purchase immutable record keeping) also becomes an emergent form of general money.
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a source familiar with the matter 1y ago

If it's about record-keeping, why do I need 1BTC? Doesn't 0.1BTC keep the record just as perfectly?

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mrclownworld 1y ago

You need to pay a fee to write new records, so you need to spend whatever the current fee rate per byte of data is. It’s an open global market, but the space in the next block is finite.

Once written, the record does ride free and the security/immutability comes from new records continuing to be written.