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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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marcus_of_augustus
on 08/07/2016, 22:39:07 UTC
As long as bitcoin has intrinsic value (which we agree it does), the price can boom due to economic conditions, just like the precious metals.

where's the intrinsic value? i don't believe anything has intrinsic value in the great scheme of things. value's awarded and mutually agreed, it's not a concrete thing.

you're right, all value is necessarily subjective because value is a human construct that doesn't have an object existence you can prove with experimental or observational evidence.

However, Landauer's principle of information theory ensures that entropy-increasing, irreversible computations (like bitcoin's proof-of-work hashing) consume a quantifiable minimum requirement of energy. Energy is an objective, extrinsic property associated with many different tradeable commodities that are widely marketed. i.e. valuable, across the planet.