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    April 14, 2023, 09:26:09 PM
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    https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1646135432982286338?s=19

    According to Warren Buffett, Bitcoin is called a gambling coin because it does not have a fixed value. Warren Buffett cares more about paper money or fiat than Bitcoin, but one thing is very important that Warren Buffett cares about the dollar in this satirical/Critisized  interview.

    But in a tweet replay to Bitcoin Magazine, a gentleman gave a strong response to his satirical interview, which is brought to you all.

    Dear Mr. Buffett,

    I realised recently money is just intermediate value.

    It is value that hasn’t assumed the form of something we can directly use.

    So the value of a dollar is not $1–that would be circular.

    It is what you can exchange that dollar for. The seller determines this.

    Yet if the value of a dollar ever felt immutable, unchangeable, it was due to a web of implicit trust between buyers, sellers, and institutions.

    Institutions willing to enforce its value with might and steel.

    So the dollar, the most commonly traded instrument in history, never had intrinsic value.

    It had exchange value derived from trust and force.

    Banks safekeep and bookkeep money. They are exchange hubs.

    Their ledgers are codices of exchanges. Of transaction history.

    They also make money by issuing loans, but this third function relies on the first two.

    Money first roamed the world as cowrie shells, gold and silver, then cash.

    It roams bankspace through SWIFT, ACH, whatever networks banks run in the backroom, maybe FedNow in the future.

    Bankspace has become a superfluous middle step because we can now network directly with each other.

    Cash has become problematic because so much of it has been issued.

    Because so much of it has been issued, a lot of it is being spent, in turn driving prices up and lowering that exchange value of a dollar.

    Bitcoin is just money on a blockchain

    A blockchain is a peer-to-peer exchange network that bypasses bankspace.

    As a networked ledger duplicated across multiple nodes, it addresses the need for safekeeping and bookkeeping.

    Bitcoin’s like money.

    Because it is value in intermediate form, and tradeable for dollars.

    Like euros or yen or renminbi.

    And its value is ultimately decided by its buyers and sellers, just like money.

    And if people counterfeited or issued more Bitcoin, its value would drop in response.

    But it was born to have a fixed supply, unlike money.

    So it’s not a gambling token.

    It has characteristics as a network of value exchange that make it a more stable type of money.

    A money native to this reality where mobile devices are ubiquitous.

    Tweet reply from: https://twitter.com/civic_cat/status/1646933596266168320?s=19

    How would you respond to Warren Buffett's anti-Bitcoin comments?

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