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I don’t think it will be.

I talked to a person that valuates art. When I heard her talk, I felt that cryptocurrency valuation had a lot in common with it.

Where art is valued on:

- Rarity

- Popularity of artist

- Perceived craftsmanship then

- Perceived craftmanship now

- Emotional elicitation (indirectly, i.e. if we didn’t “like” or “felt” something through art it wouldn’t hold value, probably).

Now cryptocurrencies:

- Rarity

- Popularity

- Innovativeness of idea at the time

- Innovativeness of idea now

- The ideology that a certain coin or cryptocurrencies as a whole represent (e.g. if it didn’t have an anarchistic and innovative bend then it would be worth a lot less)

- To a small extent: its utility (e.g. the unbanked using it)

Obviously I am handwaving and simplifying. My point: they are more similar than you think.



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