Klart och tydligt formulerat av Satoshi själv om värdet av bitcoin, i ett nyligen publicerat mejl till en av de tidigaste medarbetarna i projektet:
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Historically, people have taken up scarce commodities as money, if necessary taking up whatever is at hand, such as shells or stones. Each has a kernel of usefulness that helped bootstrap the process, but the monetary value ends up being much more than the functional value alone.
Most of the value comes from the value that others place in it. Gold, for instance, is pretty, non-corrosive and easily malleable, but most of its value is clearly not from that. Brass is shiny and similar in color. The vast majority of gold sits unused in vaults, owned by governments that could care less about its prettiness.
Until now, no scarce commodity that can be traded over a communications channel without a trusted third party has been available. If there is a desire to take up a form of money that can be traded over the Internet without a TTP (trusted third party), then now that is possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4701rc744UI
Och givetvis var han väl medveten om varför dagens fiatsystem är så dåligt:
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The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.
Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts.
https://dailyhodl.com/2024/02/25/new...peoples-trust/
