>>60484166
Dull.
Bitcoin has no purpose, it is a new thing, a trustless intangible ledger, and can be used for new things.
We can use btc for at least two priceless functions:
1) We can encode the price of money into btc via aggregate demand for “economic unit”, in doing so creating a Trustless Price Signal of Money, i.e. THE economic reference point. This massively increases the efficiency of economic calculation.
2) Trustless intangible Store of Value: Physical goods require active force simply to maintain ownership, trust-based assets require trusted third parties to operate them. Storing abstract economic value in either enables negative sum actors to parasite as NSAs can specialize exclusively in force. With a trustless intangible SoV we can guarantee voluntary exchange in-the-limit as btc can be made prohibitively expensive to seize (multi-sig, Shamir backup) and is infinitely more resistant to seizure by default
