If you have interest, and the patience to excuse my long-windedness (still learning to write concisely), I give a pretty thorough counter-argument to this here:

If you have interest, and the patience to excuse my long-windedness (still learning to write concisely), I give a pretty thorough counter-argument to this here: http://ill-logic-politik.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-fallacies-at-root-of-bitcoins-value.html http://ill-logic-politik.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-fallacies-... In short, that's begging the question. It's like saying "tulips are great because it lets me give people tulips".