It provides a trustless, fungible, decentralized store of value. What more do you want in a currency?
I want actual value that isn't based on a bunch of people being stupid.
A trustless, decentralized public ledger is valuable in and of itself. If you buy a thousand barrels of oil from some Norwegian guy named Sven, being able to pay him, have proof that payment was received within a minute or two, and do so for a trivial cost is quite valuable.
Try doing that with gold and you'll spend the equivalent of $10k USD or more to send armed guards to schlep a strongbox over to Sven. And then you have to take their word for it that the gold didnt get "lost" in transit, and the whole process will take at least a day.
You guys can play your beaniebabies all you want. If sven wants to trade something physical for something imaginary, that's his problem.
One that can be transacted without requiring infrastructure and preferably representative of something.
Can you think of one example? And think about that before you spout Boomer-logic like "gold", because the infrastructure to mine, secure, and transport that is massive.
Any physical currency fits my first point, I'd like to transact without requiring infrastructure. The fact that anyone with a bit of knowledge in geology can go out and pan or mine for gold means large infrastructure isn't an absolute requirement for a gold standard.
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