Ok I feel a little embarrassed. Now it's clear that they are a troll and I fed them quite a bit.

Is it a somewhat known person or you just recognised a familiar posting style? Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it was someone who has a history of coming here just to troll people.

Really pathetic of me that I didn't get it from the very first post.

Everyone, don't forget to ~Mariokb in your trust list and leave some negative feedback.
Does not do much since he is going to crawl back into his moms basement soon and go away but might as well.

-Dave

In a forum like ours, is it where you want to discredit Bitcoin, which every one of us holds in high regard? I don't know what gives you the boldness to post a delusional article that is not convincing about Bitcoin.

How can you give an opinion that Bitcoin doesn't exist, whereas countries, companies, and millions of people are buying into it daily. Does it mean they are buying and hodling on to nothing as future assets? Think wise before defining Bitcoin in a foolish way

Following your reasoning nothing exists: no software, no digital documents, no games, no operating systems, just pixels on a screen. Btc source can be audited, transactions can be verified, addresses can be signed from uniquely; everything's verifiable and easy to analyze dude Your argument's nonsense.

OP, I think your friend has brains than you and you think that you are more smarter than him. What will you say about the government and big companies buying bitcoin. Are you saying that you are smarter than all these people combined together.

I think, you're high on cheap weed to say there is no bitcoin. Maybe, the whole bitcoin network and how it's working is a big mystery to you but a lot of people understand how it works and what makes it an asset. Not just an asset but a store of value overtime.

Lol, I stopped reading right when I read "I took a paper and wrote 2 BTC and said I have created 2 BTC". How can someone be so foolish? OP probably has zero knowledge about the digital world, and it is actually him who is delusional and not those who are into Bitcoin. His friend should have asked him to quickly deposit those two bitcoins he created on paper in an exchange and try and convert it to fiat currency, when he couldn't do that, he should have demonstrated the same himself using only 0.001 bitcoins and he would literally shut up right there.

We are in 2026 already and there are still people who argue that digital money or assets can't exist only because they don't have a physical existence. Based on OP's point, the money that we see in our banking apps aren't actually ours or in our possession because we can transfer then digitally but we don't have them actually in our possession unless we withdraw them. This whole post is nothing but a rant from someone who is completely delusional and lack so much knowledge.

The author of this thread is right (only in reverse)! Bitcoin is one of the few real assets. All other financial assets don't exist. 🙋

Do you own real estate? Of course not! The title to real estate is yours. It's just an entry in a registry that you don't control. If a government official decides to remove your name from the registry tomorrow, you'll no longer own that property.

Do you own money? Of course not! Unless it's cash, it's just a bank's promise to pay you. When the bank goes bankrupt, your money will disappear into thin air...

The same applies to stocks, bonds, derivatives, and so on. It's just an illusion. An abstraction...

As for Bitcoin, it's a real asset. It's a decentralized system that won't disappear overnight. A large number of miners, a large amount of computing equipment, a large amount of electricity, a large amount of resources. What could be more real? What could be more reliable?  At the same time, your coins are completely under your control (with caveats if you're paranoid and the entropy is high enough). Yes, there are risks, but there is also freedom. There are difficulties, but that's reality!

Sorry mate, you lost me at the beginning with that long write up .. But I noticed that somehow you’ve managed to red-pill some users into your hallucinatory realm

You know what, I just wrote 3000BTC on a piece of paper too.. Now I can claim I own 3K BTC, all thanks thanks to you

Old but still  Gold satoshi

This reply illustrates exactly how deep the collective delusion is. You haven't addressed my argument at all. Instead, you've simply assumed the existence of "bitcoins" from the outset and then proceeded to explain how the Bitcoin network operates. My article never denied the existence of the Bitcoin network, its blockchain, its protocol, its software, or its rules. Those all exist.

What it disputes is the existence of "bitcoins."

Saying "if you see bitcoin as just a recorded number" simply assumes the very point under dispute. That is circular reasoning, not an argument. You then switch to discussing fiat money and what would happen if governments abolished it. Again, that has nothing to do with my argument. My point is not that paper has value because it is physical. In fact, I explicitly discuss intangible things such as debts, patents, copyrights, photographs, documents, and software. Nothing in your reply establishes the existence of "bitcoins." It simply assumes they exist and builds the rest of the argument on that assumption. Repeating the assumption is not an argument. Stop assuming the conclusion, and address the argument that was actually made.

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What's striking is that you treat the existence of "bitcoins" as so self-evident that you never even consider the possibility that it is the very assumption under examination. Rather than engaging that premise, you declare anyone questioning it to be detached from reality.

The irony is hard to miss: you're accusing me of delusion while participating in one so deep that you cannot even bring yourself to examine the assumption on which your entire argument rests.

Once again, this assumes the very point under dispute instead of arguing for it. You say there is a Bitcoin created by a blockchain, but that is precisely the collective delusion the article is talking about.

A blockchain records numbers associated with addresses according to a set of rules. Recording numbers, whether on paper or in a database, does not bring anything into existence. Writing "10 patents" does not create ten patents. Writing "2 BTC" does not bring two "bitcoins" into existence. The existence of the record does not establish the existence of the thing the record supposedly represents.

Everything else you mentioned, financial freedom, third-party interference, purchasing power, total supply....is a distraction from that central point. Those questions all presuppose that "bitcoins" exist. The supply must be of something. Creating a rule about the sum of numbers associated with addresses is not a supply of anything.