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CASEBITCOIN making the case for bitcoin every day
Bitcoin Marketcap
$1.86T
Gold Marketcap
$16.15T
BTC Settlement Volume (24hr)
$12.90B
BTC Inflation Rate (next 1yr)
1.17%
CASEBITCOIN making the case for bitcoin every day
26 Jul 2019 | | Price when published: $9,856 (ROI since: +899%)
Filed under: fundamentals blogs
This a multi-part series of articles examining bitcoin from a first-principles fundamentals perspective. Parker approaches the series by taking the reader through the typical intellectual journey that many bitcoin-believers went through, with in depth treatment of the common criticisms along the way.
For me, the path involved first understanding why gold was money. That involved understanding the unique properties which made something a better or worse form of money and what differentiated money as a unique economic good compared to most other types of economic goods. The Bitcoin Standard was formative for me in exploring the questions, not as a gospel but rather, as a foundation to think about the problem statement. When I applied that foundation to my own life experiences and to my own understanding of the existing financial system, and its flaws, only then did it begin to become intuitive. And thatβs something that may be evident (that bitcoin is intuitive as money) to those that have spent years thinking about it relative to monetary principles but itβs also true that bitcoin is not intuitive. Itβs extremely not intuitive until it becomes intuitive and then over time it becomes hyper intuitive.
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