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teekertyesterday at 4:21 PM1 replyview on HN

Age old argument: money also has no intrinsic utilitarian value.

And yes, btc does store value, it is doing that for me now. I stored some of my value in it and it has held better value than fiat.


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throwaway894345today at 12:59 AM

> Age old argument: money also has no intrinsic utilitarian value.

I didn't claim money had intrinsic value, I claimed that money is fiat currency--it's backed by a lot of people with a lot of guns. BTC is not.

> And yes, btc does store value, it is doing that for me now. I stored some of my value in it and it has held better value than fiat.

Currencies (BTC included) don't "store value", they are assigned value by society esp via markets. Sometimes society decides one currency is more valuable than another, or that its change in value differs from that of another, but neither currency stores value.