Quote from: Coin_Master on November 17, 2014, 06:29:52 AM

Quote from: bcoinbilly on November 14, 2014, 06:24:17 AM

The currency obviously has been given it's value somehow. I know it is preached to be different than regular fiat currency, but I am very curios how it went from an idea to now being able to be used for purchases, and given a value in relation to USD.

Me and a group of friends cannot come up with an idea for something to be used for transactions and then have that idea be able to transform into a countries currency. We can trade amongst ourselves but there is no way we can give it a value to be used to trade it into dollars. There has to be some type of government involvement in order for bitcoin to have a value in relation to a nations currency.

My question is how is the original concept of bitcoin given a value in dollars? Does this mean there is significant government involvement in bitcoin?

The question you should be asking is "what gives the US dollar value?" Wink

Yes that was one of my biggest questions as I go older