I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web browsers will use it. Web servers will use it.
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Money is an agreed-upon concept that holds value only because society believes it does.
In this quote, Naval Ravikant suggests that money is not inherently valuable but rather a construct of collective belief. The idea of money symbolizes a societal agreement that assigns worth to paper and coins, making it fragile and unpredictable, much like a bubble that can shift in perception but never truly disappears from our collective consciousness.
Themes
MoneyValueBeliefSocietyPerception
In practice
Example use cases
A speaker might use this quote in a financial seminar to illustrate the subjective nature of value.
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