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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campusalot 1 month ago
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