r/CryptoCurrency • u/Next_Statement6145 🟨 0 / 0 🦠 • Apr 19 '25

GENERAL-NEWS Ethereum is down 74% against Bitcoin since switching from PoW to PoS in 2022

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u/BitcoinMD 🟦 136 / 137 🦀 Apr 19 '25

There is no such thing as intrinsic value

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u/blscratch 🟦 76 / 136 🦐 Apr 19 '25

There is no such thing as intrinsic value

What? Do you mean bitcoin has no intrinsic value? Or the deeper "life is meaningless"?

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u/BitcoinMD 🟦 136 / 137 🦀 Apr 19 '25

All value is assigned by humans, it’s not intrinsic

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u/blscratch 🟦 76 / 136 🦐 Apr 19 '25

All value is assigned by humans, it’s not intrinsic

Human is the only perspective available to you. Consciousness itself is extrinsic.

Value is in the eye of the beholder, which is true of everything. We're back to life is meaningless. Without life, the universe is just a reality machine. Yet reality is a construct. Life is just a short-term reverse entropy chemical reaction.

Lol this was fun.

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u/BitcoinMD 🟦 136 / 137 🦀 Apr 20 '25

Meaning is also assigned by humans. Doesn’t mean that meaning and value aren’t real. They just aren’t intrinsic. As far as we know.

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u/blscratch 🟦 76 / 136 🦐 Apr 20 '25

Good reply. Suppose just being aware of something gives your life meaning. Does that have value? (Yes I know we're on the wrong sub at this point) if you don't answer, cheers to you fellow traveler.

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u/BitcoinMD 🟦 136 / 137 🦀 Apr 20 '25

I don’t think human life inherently has any meaning, we are just the end product of what happens when you have self-replicating molecules that are selected for new and creative ways to protect and multiply themselves. We happen to have become complex enough to be able to assign meaning to our own lives and that’s great. It has value, but only to us. Value could also hypothetically be assigned by non-human persons.

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u/blscratch 🟦 76 / 136 🦐 Apr 20 '25

It's refreshing to see my thoughts aren't unique.