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Board Economics
Re: What is bitcoin backed by?
by
Imfinnabeon
on 13/02/2018, 18:14:38 UTC
Bitcoin is backed by people, energy and time.

Spot on. We do some of the backing yes, but the POW system and the miners are what create the coins and give us basis for a price point. Without that system in place we wouldn't have originating prices. All 5 aspects of Bitcoin are needed to derive a price and the security it needs so we in turn can have faith in backing it.