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I've heard it mentioned various times that a fiat currency's value in any organized society comes from its ability to pay off the controlling state (i.e. taxes)
by hiram112 9y ago
I've heard it mentioned various times that a fiat currency's value in any organized society comes from its ability to pay off the controlling state (i.e. taxes).
Whether it is dollars to the IRS, colored beads to the local chieftains, or copper coins to the Lord of the manor, it doesn't make a difference. The ability to 'pay off' the state in power, with legal permission and ability to use violence, gives that currency value.
- JoshuaDavid 9y agoSo by that token, the ability to pay off ransomware authors gives bitcoin value?
- aplummer 9y agoI think you're right in this case. The ransomware authors functioning similarly to the state. If i couldn't access my computer I would have to buy bitcoins with my other assets.
- aplummer 9y agoInteresting how this works once you go back to currency. This extortion money being "legally" worthless, being the proceeds of crime. (Illegally obviously worth the picture on the front.)