The average mining cost of 1 bitcoin as of December 2nd 2024 is $91,271.
You can argue the value of bitcoin is nothing but that's not how value works. Value is based on the price someone is willing to pay and the cost to obtain that good.
I'm not a Bitcoin shill, and I can see a scenario where the value of Bitcoin drops 90%. But when you have an asset that is expensive to create, is fungible, and can't be copied, you can't just say it's not worth anything because you feel like it.
Yes, u/pkvi_eid, real crypto is mathematically provable labor, which is why it's a real asset. Since BTC proved that, there have been Ponzis and Madoffs everywhere scamming the people who can't tell NFT fake-blockchain from real assets. But BTC keeps rising, overall, because nobody can argue with actual math. Basically the same math as RSA, which is worth trillions.
I agree. If everyone knew how easy and cheap it is to create their own ERC-20 token or a Solana token (which is what most scam coins are), they would think crypto is worthless too.
My favorite current example is Hawk Tuah coin.
1 billion tokens minted out of thin air in a single Solana contract with a peak market cap of 3.17 million dollars. After a 95% decline, a current market cap of 98.8k.
No wonder people think crypto is has no value.
Anyway, major proof of work and proof of stake crypto currencies do have intrinsic value. You just have to know the difference.
The average mining cost of 1 bitcoin as of December 2nd 2024 is $91,271.
You can argue the value of bitcoin is nothing but that's not how value works. Value is based on the price someone is willing to pay and the cost to obtain that good.
I'm not a Bitcoin shill, and I can see a scenario where the value of Bitcoin drops 90%. But when you have an asset that is expensive to create, is fungible, and can't be copied, you can't just say it's not worth anything because you feel like it.
https://en.macromicro.me/charts/29435/bitcoin-production-total-cost
Yes, u/pkvi_eid, real crypto is mathematically provable labor, which is why it's a real asset. Since BTC proved that, there have been Ponzis and Madoffs everywhere scamming the people who can't tell NFT fake-blockchain from real assets. But BTC keeps rising, overall, because nobody can argue with actual math. Basically the same math as RSA, which is worth trillions.
I agree. If everyone knew how easy and cheap it is to create their own ERC-20 token or a Solana token (which is what most scam coins are), they would think crypto is worthless too.
https://docs.alchemy.com/docs/how-to-create-an-erc-20-token-4-steps
https://solana.com/developers/guides/getstarted/how-to-create-a-token
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/hawktuuuah/
My favorite current example is Hawk Tuah coin. 1 billion tokens minted out of thin air in a single Solana contract with a peak market cap of 3.17 million dollars. After a 95% decline, a current market cap of 98.8k.
No wonder people think crypto is has no value.
Anyway, major proof of work and proof of stake crypto currencies do have intrinsic value. You just have to know the difference.
Thanks for the hard details on Hawk Tuah. Only Trump can make money in NFTs, and that's because of numismatics and not "nonfungibility".