BitcoinMendocino on Nostr: What's backing #bitcoin? (Rhetorical answer) What's backing gold? Gold takes work to ...
What's backing #bitcoin? (Rhetorical answer) What's backing gold?
Gold takes work to produce and is scarce. Bitcoin also takes work to produce and is scarcer than gold.
Neither are 'backed' by anything except the laws of physics.
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