Interesting counternarrative…
“This is the point where the Bitcoin hype-men will almost certainly counter-attack by shouting: all money is just numbers!
That’s where I call hard bullshit on them. The actual monetary system is a coercive and extractive credit vortex underpinned by powerful legal structures, military and the commercial banking sector around the world. That’s why it works, and that’s how the entire WSMOSC League functions. Capitalism isn’t some merry ye olde market. It’s a gigantic global organism built upon state foundations that uphold private property laws, allows corporations to exist, and hold the reins of a transnational money system that both expands and contracts.
Money isn’t ‘just numbers’, even if it appears with numbers, and the mere fact that Bitcoin is a movable numbered digital object means nothing. A flattened bottle cap found on the road, or a highly rare ornate amulet, or a piece of round plastic, could also have numbers etched into them. They could also be moved. They could also be countertraded. That doesn’t make them anything like the dollar.”