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.
Its not. You have the burden of proof of proof and yet you can only show processing not actually application or static functionality other than human negotiated b/s
The white paper proves proof. The math is open. Desirable labor processing is a good. It may be "busywork" in one sense, but its value is that it is proven by blockchain to have contributed to objectively awarded holdings, and more have come to realize that this busywork is a lot more valued than that of the federal government deskworkers.
I could certainly publish here my unique further proof that Bitcoin itself involves some deception and frontloading for early adopters, and I have evidence I haven't seen anyone else publish. But this is knowably without my publication, and the distribution system itself is resilient and scalable enough to overcome its flaws. And that's a totally different argument from saying you don't value the proven labor that a bunch of other people value. It works whether you join it or not, and even whether people bail on it ("run" or "crash" it) or not.
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.
Its not. You have the burden of proof of proof and yet you can only show processing not actually application or static functionality other than human negotiated b/s
The white paper proves proof. The math is open. Desirable labor processing is a good. It may be "busywork" in one sense, but its value is that it is proven by blockchain to have contributed to objectively awarded holdings, and more have come to realize that this busywork is a lot more valued than that of the federal government deskworkers.
I could certainly publish here my unique further proof that Bitcoin itself involves some deception and frontloading for early adopters, and I have evidence I haven't seen anyone else publish. But this is knowably without my publication, and the distribution system itself is resilient and scalable enough to overcome its flaws. And that's a totally different argument from saying you don't value the proven labor that a bunch of other people value. It works whether you join it or not, and even whether people bail on it ("run" or "crash" it) or not.