Quote from: poptok1 on February 11, 2019, 10:59:22 AM

Quote from: fxsurfer on January 29, 2019, 11:26:43 AM

You talk about Bitcoin like it is something, like it is an actual thing or even a person: "see it", "believe in it", "invest in it", "profit from it", "benefit from it". Unfortunately Bitcoin is just a fancy name for changed digits in a distributed spreadsheet, it is just a mathematical abstraction, and not an actual thing. Actual things don't appear or disappear by changing digits. People profited or benefited from other people's actual things like dollars, goods or services, not from changed spreadsheet digits. No one can benefit from that. No one can benefit from Bitcoin.

And yet, here we are. Most of us as we writing here, believes that the idea of bitcoin is somewhat beneficial.
Fact is that most of the world's economy today is built on the premise of changing digits

I definitely support this stance

What's more, if we start to think about it, we will inevitably arrive at a conclusion that "changing digits" is not in fact the worst form of a "mathematical abstraction and not an actual thing", even without taking into account that the best part of the modern economy is like that exactly. The worst thing is that decisions we make, life preferences we have, and choices we pick are coming from what may be even more abstract than digits in an obscure server somewhere "out there". So it doesn't really matter because the very idea of profits and benefits as such is no less abstract