GAVIN ADRESEN: Bitcoin is really a pure money. It's a store of value and a means of exchange and that's all it is. It's almost a plutonic ideal of what money is, in that there is nothing backing it beyond the fact that it's useful as a money.
+1. Very insightful. Indeed, bitcoin is the
plutonic platonic ideal of what money is...
correction: I just realized that I just copied abc.net.au misspelling of "platonic"...
Not quite. The platonic ideal of money would keep private transactions between individuals private NOT make them explicitly a matter of public record.
Very big difference.