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 The first step in understanding the Austrian concept is to realize that value is entirely subjective, rather than something objective. Value, therefore, is something that each individual person weighs on a purely private, not a public, set of scales.

(from https://mises.org/library/introduction-value-theory)

Not sure if you agree with this view? Probably not? Bitcoiners generally do. I do as well.

Other people value tainted sats differently. If they all had the same value, I couldn't write a program to flag certain utxos. And yet this is trivial to do. Because they are not fungible, and thus are valued differently.

Sats have no intrinsic value. No other things does, at least if you buy (heh) Austrian Economics.

This is why certain coins are set to be delisted (by government coercion in the background, no doubt) - since each unit is really like every other unit due to inbuilt cryptography, the government's solution is to foolishly try to ban the tool.

With Bitcoin, no need - it's transparent (thus not fungible). They insist in attempting to outlaw mixing techniques (you can still do them, but good luck using sats from such txs in the aboveground economy, if they push this nonsense far enough.