Discussing gold's "utility" value is absolutely a non-starter. Such a thing was scarcely considered in its history of human adoption as a store-of-wealth.
That's because no other metal was as recognizable, divisible, rare, etc. Cryptocoins are all more or less equally fungible, recognizable, divisible, portable and rare.
How can you pretend Bitcoin has no utility value? Censorship resistant deflationary store of wealth is not good enough for you?
ALL cryptocoins are censorship resistant and some are more so and also more deflationary.
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At the risk of repeating myself, "a cryptographic token" gains value by attracting trust in its sound economic nature as digital gold. Why is it this trust can not be replicated in just any other altcoins you ask? Because: "Trust is a very organic process which takes an enormous amount of time". Bitcoin has 5 years of history for that trust to build on.
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At the risk of pointing out the obvious: 5<5000
also, there are no limits on gold transactions/second. A throttled network capacity makes Bitcoin digital fool's gold.
At the risk of repeating myself also: Network effects didn't save MySpace. I'm starting to think all those talking heads on the idiot box who said Bitcoin was too new, experimental and would be replaced by a better crypto maybe had it right.