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Board Economics
Re: What is bitcoin backed by? My favorite answers
by
Mehek
on 09/07/2015, 15:30:57 UTC
1) A lack of faith in central banks and their long-term control over government currencies

2) A desire to hold currency that has positive expected value when more efficient means of production are discovered.

That is all.

-bgc


The first one is so accurate. I just witnessed a thread about how untrustworthy the central banks are haha.  Grin  Although bitcoin is backed by nothing but people.  The question does have a  point.  It is what bitcoin is not backed by that matters though wink wink.