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Good arguments, but irrelevant because Bitcoin is not a consumption good. Mining is public evidence that someone is willing to burn $X in electricity to acquir
by jkhdigital 6y ago
Good arguments, but irrelevant because Bitcoin is not a consumption good.
Mining is public evidence that someone is willing to burn $X in electricity to acquire a Bitcoin. For an intrinsically worthless monetary asset with no government support, social proof is the only real source of data on possible valuations. See also: Mises’ regression theorem.