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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Does Bitcoin have any real value?
by
BlackHatCoiner
on 11/04/2022, 13:54:11 UTC
Those Bitcoin mining costs are the non speculative, translated value.
No, the costs are the costs. The value comes from the fact that there's a demand. If there's no demand for gold, it doesn't matter how much it costs you to extract it from the ground: It's simply valueless.

However, in Bitcoin there's something different. The costs are somewhat connected with the valuation, because of the difficulty, which is a parameter that does not exist in any other asset. If the demand rises by a lot, it brings more competition into mining which makes it, in consequence, more expensive to mine 1 BTC. Oppositely if the demand drops by a lot.

The canon is the canon, though. If there's no demand, there's no market value, despite of the costs.