and why would something that also has zero value other than 'belief' be a solution for that?
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.
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.
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