Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget said Bitcoin has no intrinsic value.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxycmMo8Z2oIf Bitcoin has any intrinsic values, then what are they? The author of the video did bring up 10 "intrinsic values". It is very hard to determine if they are intrinsic values or just characteristics.
What do you think of all of these?
If he thinks that bitcoin has no intrinsic value then I don't think anything has intrinsic value honestly.
Nothing currency has intrinsic value, it's that simple. Only usable things like food has intrinsic value. Currencies are simply a medium of exchange, in which people conduct their business in. Rather than talking about intrinsic value i think it is much more appropriate to talk about how decentralized something is, and how much trust people have in the currency.
For example, gold, an established form of money over the centuries, has decentralized production, much like bitcoin. It is not useful other than being a good electric conductor, but then there are much better conductors. What makes gold valuable is its rarity, much like bitcoin again, and people's trust in it, like bitcoin as well. So i think it's fair to say that just like gold, in the long run bitcoin is going to be a great hedge against inflation and financial collapses, whether or not it has intrinsic value or not.