When you say "Bitcoin has no value", you are saying:
  1. The lives of these 1800 African villagers have no value https://unherd.com/2024/01/the-african-village-mining-bitcoin/
  2. Getting aid to 1000s of war refugees has no value https://wired.co.uk/article/ukraine-crypto-refugee-aid
  3. Developing energy independence for Bhutan has no value https://impact.economist.com/projects/banking-the-underbanked/
  4. Helping 19.4 million Afghanastani women avoid State-level financial discrimination has no value https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-financial-freedom-in-afghanistan
  5. Establishing the economic sovereignty of 14 African nations still experiencing French financial colonization has no value https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/03/macron-france-cfa-franc-eco-west-central-africa-colonialism-monetary-policy-bitcoin/
  6. The idea of creating an alternative to a monetary system which can and does elongate wars, increase wealth gaps, bail out bankers but fail to protect employees and small businesses has no value https://amazon.com/Engine-Inequality-Future-Wealth-America/dp/1119726743
  7. Providing a financial system that is harder to use for money laundering than fiat currency has no value https://decrypt.co/125623/crooks-defi-crypto-fiat-treasury
  8. Removing the risk of financial reprisal for running humanitarian campaigns in autocratic nations where 5.7Billion people live has no value https://bbc.com/news/world-africa-56169917
  9. Providing 250 Million people in countries experiencing hyperinflation a means to stop 50%+ erosion of their family savings per year has no value https://cointribune.com/en/argentina-bitcoin-faces-100-inflation-rate/
  10. Allowing people in developing nations to receive remittance payments from family without delays and without heavy fees has no value https://thenextweb.com/news/el-salvador-first-adopt-bitcoin-real-money-good-news-unbanked-syndication
  11. Having a secure, permissionless, decentralized, 24/7 store of value with fixed monetary supply has no value https://bitcoin.com/get-started/the-benefits-of-bitcoin/
  12. The accomplishment of becoming the world's most sustainably powered industry has no value https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1670320573480833025?s=20
  13. Accelerating the renewable transition by making renewable generation more profitable has no value https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/11/bitcoin-could-support-renewable-energy-development
  14. Reducing more emissions from landfills than the largest DAC project in the world ever achieved has no value https://renewableenergymagazine.com/biogas/companies-launch-pilot-using-landfill-methane-emissions-20230502
  15. Developing an monetary financial system with significantly lower emissions and emissions intensity than the banking system has no value https://nasdaq.com/articles/a-comparison-of-bitcoins-environmental-impact-with-that-of-gold-and-banking-2021-05-04 https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1671336675497349121?s=20
Arguing that even one of these things has no value, or that Bitcoin does not deliver this promised value would I think be pretty hard.
But arguing that all 17 have no value (which you'd need to do in order to contend that Bitcoin has no value)?
That would require mental gynmastics beyond the level to justify flat-earth theory.
It's rare I see a technology with one benefits akin to the ones above. But to have 17 usecases of such world-changing dimension -that is a once in a generation technology.
It believe in the value and every day that it exists more believe and we are harder to stop especially with record hash rates!
11 sats \ 1 reply \ @go 23 Jan
Let's nail this list to the door of St. Warren's
18. It is not backed by political honesty
Bitcoin Core 25.0
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