Land, a excellent analogy.
Originally posted on Richard Gendal Brown:
Forget currencies and commodities… perhaps the right analogy for Bitcoin is LAND!
Oleg Andreev posted an insightful tweet the other day:
You could argue this is a trivial observation: how else could it work?! But thinking in terms of ownership and protocols for transfer of ownership is a surprisingly helpful way to think about how the system works. And that’s because the “protocol of ownership” insight means there is a whole other world of history, tradition and precedent to learn from: land!
Here are some observations to motivate the thought:
- In the end-state the quantity of Bitcoin will be fixed, just like land.
- Bitcoin is not perfectly fungible and neither is land
- Bitcoin is not “consumed” through use – just transformed and transferred…
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