If someone popped up asking if the software could safely hold up his aquarium without bending or cracking, there isn't much that can be said by way of direct reply.
Such was his analogy. He is deeply confused. It is neither defensive nor tangential to point that out.
Tangential in that it doesn't address his point, rather ones own. Defensive in responding with mutual and valueless memes to distract from the possibilty of any merit. We might not all agree, but we do all understand the point he was making. If you hope to build cryptos into anything more than a zero-sum techie plaything I suggest it's time to stop playing and skirting around the questions everyone outside this small circle will have. If you don't, then as you were.
There was no point to address. Bitcoin is not bread. The sustaining power of a loaf of bread is fixed, and dividing it up doesn't change the sum. One loaf cannot feed a herd of angry villagers. The money power of bitcoin is not fixed. 1 BTC
can serve the exchange uses of the entire world.
Value is not a thing that exists outside of our minds. We aren't embedding some of it into our money. We are measuring it, like we measure temperature or distance, just not with a coherent or standardized scale*. No one is worried that there won't be enough temperature to go around, or enough kilometers. Worrying that there won't be enough money for everyone demonstrates a serious confusion.
Once again, it is not defensive to point out that someone's thinking will not lead to useful questions, much less useful answers.
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Although bitcoin is the world's best attempt at a coherent measure for value, by far. The far end of the scale is subject to the whims of politicians or bankers. If only that were the only problem...