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To: DUMBGRUNT

What is the definition of money/currency?

What determines the value of it?

I would like to ask these geniuses that.


85 posted on 05/20/2021 7:18:05 PM PDT by crz
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To: crz

—”What is the definition of money/currency?

What determines the value of it?”

Great questions and fun too!

Now if we can have some time with the legendary ‘One Armed Economist’? I think he may have passed?

IMO...Select several explanations for the value of money and listen carefully, you will hear Johnny Mathis in the background (Feelings...) IMO it is a component in most definitions.

Is Bitcoin a commodity, a currency, or both?

If crypto coins are a fiat currency lacking a government, they have no intrinsic value. (Yes the Chinese and other planned crypto coins are government-issued.)

IMO it has a market led price, and nothing more.

Here is a bit on Adam Smith Value Theory that I posted above:
“Smith’s theory of value was very similar to the later utility theories in that Smith proclaimed that a commodity was worth whatever labor it would command in others (value in trade) or whatever labor it would “save” the self (value in use), or both. However, this “value” is subject to supply and demand at a particular time”

No diamond mine with dwarfs laboring to pick out the diamonds? The labor theory of value!

What is the intrinsic value of a crypto coin?
Some computer humming day and night creating heat?


93 posted on 05/21/2021 7:40:02 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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