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I thought about this thread for several hours
It kinda hammers home the point that value is inter subjective…ie if ur child is starving in an isolated desert ud prolly prefer bread instead of silver
Still I think, at least for me, gold represents value in the sense of financial stability and personal security and BTC represents value in the form of hope for a better future for everyone….but both are rooted in the value of PoW
…unfortunately for gold it’s very physicality, that gold bugs often tout as it’s primary advantage over BTC, is also its greatest weakness that requires centralized abstraction (paper) for practical economic transaction
…. For me personally any asset that is not based on PoW (a significant marginal cost of production) is doomed to lose its value over a long arc of time due to debasement (including monero which no doubt has value (privacy) in the short term)… but ima idgit and often wrong🤷🏽♂️
Full disclosure: I’m a fan of individuals’ right to transact in the asset they prefer… and for me personally I think both gold and btc are a notable improvement on our current credit based system fueled by its dependence on ever increasing consumption for the sake of expanding debt that can never be fully repaid and based on tokens that have a marginal cost of production of zero (u can choose the unit of account for the zero😂)