Does electricity have intrinsic value?

It's 2013, we live in the "information age". Tangibility has become irrelevant.

No the intrinsic value of the food I eat is the calories, vitamins, proteins, taste, texture and smell. Intrinsic value is always at the consumer end. Items can have the same intrinsic value if it costs a fortune to make or is practically free.

No, what you describe is an intrinsic property, not intrinsic value.

The economic definition of intrinsic value goes along the lines of: "a property that has immediate and non-economic value to you".

So say you have a gold coin.
You can use it as relative value in an economy by bartering it.
But it has an intrinsic value of being made of gold and you can use that to make a nice ring or to appreciate its shinyness.

Another example: a potato.
If you eat it you use it for its intrinsic value.
If you sell it you use it for its economic value.
And then the buyer can use it for its intrinsic value (eat it) or for its economical value (sell it on).

This all becomes confusing with bitcoin because bitcoin is information and its purpose it to offer economic value.

I think that with bitcoin you need to make a distinction in what you call bitcoin.
There is bitcoin as in how many you currently own and there is bitcoin the p2p currency system.
If you own a couple of bitcoin then their intrinsic value is basically nothing. They are just some numbers in the blockchain and they are not usefull outside of the bitcoin system.
But this system surrounding the blockchains (the clients, the miners and the networks) does have some intrinsic value.
It provides for a mechanism that has some definite numerical properties that can be used for other things than bitcoin.

YES!
Let's just agree that whatever someone else says is just the same thing as everybody else says but with their words having different meanings.
That way everyone will understand each other all the time and the world will be a better place...

Sorry I skipped over most of the thread. What about the philosophy that lies behind Bitcoin? Is that not an intrinsic property of the protocol, that we should not be subject to tyranny under the money controllers?

I don't think so because intrinsic value in some way should contrast with economic value. That is the purpose of defining something as intrinsic value. It is that part that is not used to act in an economy.
It gets interesting with information because you can copy it. So you can enjoy the informations intrinsic and economic value at the same time.
So i guess that with information we need to take this overlap for what it is.
Intrinsic value then becomes simply that what you can extract from a piece of information that is beyond its economic value. And economic value is simply the value for which you can barter the information.

The freedom you talk about is part of the bitcoin currency. So i would still call it economic value. It is a value that flows from the use of bitcoin as a currency.
Think of it this way: The fact that you can sell a sandwitch in every country in the world does not give it more intrinsic value. It gives it more economical value.

Already noticed.
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/223120.msg2345390#msg2345390

That GIF link hasn't worked before, and still doesn't. Keeps giving 504 errors. Because people who use "buttcoin" know computer stuffs really good like.

Gold does not have "intrinsic value" per se. Rather, men value it subjectively due to its unique properties (which are objective.)