okay fair enough.
what I'm saying is that a lot of people here on nostr seem to assume that bitcoin is different than other money, transcendent if you will.
behind this is some notion that bitcoin has objective properties that make it so, properties that exist in some non-imaginary sense.
i'm just saying that's silly, that all money has value only become some humans managed to persuade some other humans that it has value. with stories. that's how it works.
what's a dollar but a piece of paper?
what's a bitcoin but a few bytes on a harddrive?
when fewer humans agree that such and such money has value then such and such money goes down.
for bitcoin to go up, it's story has to do better in the story wars than the story of some other money.
that's it really. stories versus stories.
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a dollar is backed by trust in the government of the united states of america and their laws and faith that they govern by the rule of law
re: stories
ok, tyrion
didnt work for the audience
doubt it will fly now
people are exhausted by narrative
pathos wielded as a cynical magic trick