Store of value is a narrative which became dominant in the libertarian fueled Bitcoin community. There is so much more happening:
- Anonymous and bordeless payments, digital cash, the whole point of Bitcoin in the first place
- DeFi, basically fully FOSS, permissionless trustless financial system where people can take loans, get interest on savings, trade, etc
- Identity, being able to verify reputation and decentralized naming like ENS
- Space for artists and pseudo-artists to serve a niche but sizable clientele of NFT buyers
- Funding public goods, regenerative finance employed by crypto communities is probably the best way of funding FOSS I have seen
- DAOs and coordination mechanisms for decentralized communities
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