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It was never meant to be a value store. First sentence of the whitepaper: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to
by darkstar999 6y ago
It was never meant to be a value store. First sentence of the whitepaper: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution".
- solosoyokaze 6y agoI'm talking about what Bitcoin is, not what the white paper speculated it could become. Descriptive vs. prescriptive.