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> You're confusing things that you value in life with things with economic value.

If you think about it, the "economic" value is just the market trying to discover what everyone value in life.

> Also you don't seem to see that something that stores your economic value better than anything else (the "infinite" outcome) would be of great value to your life.

Finding a cure for cancer will be infinite value and most people will give anything for it - including all Bitcoins in the world. This - finding the cure of cancer - is the way better store of value than anything. The reverse is not true.



That's only demand.

Economic value = supply / demand.

Do you value air?

It's worthless. I wouldn't buy a litre of air for even a penny. But put me at the bottom of the sea, out of oxygen (i.e. no supply), and I'd give you everything I have for it.




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