Quote from: mootinator on November 08, 2013, 04:09:11 AM

Quote from: sublime5447 on November 07, 2013, 08:10:43 PM

Quote from: tsvekric on November 07, 2013, 06:51:13 PM

also conflating units of physical measurement with currency, units as placeholders for valuation as a medium of exchange, is completely irrational. The comparison just doesn't work.
you can say a gram is a certain number of atoms. That is objectively true. There is no such thing as objective value, so you can't measure a constantly defined unit of value. You're just confused.

The same is true of data. It is not objectively real. We measure opinions against facts. Data is equal to a byte a byte is equal to charged particle.

If bitcoin were equal to a byte it could work. But the limit would have to be removed to keep the definition true.

A byte can't be equal to a charged particle. A byte is eight bits. Sure, a byte can be represented by charged particles, but it is, in practice, just a number no more or less real than any representation of any number. Therefore, a bitcoin, being simply an arbitrary representation of a lot of numbers, should be just fine with you. QED.

It is in practice 8 bits or 8 charged particles ( which is objectively real and a constant)