Should Students Think about Cryptocurrency?
Dr. Rettler is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Wyoming. In this essay, I want to clarify and respond to a prevalent assertion regarding bitcoin  that bitcoin has no intrinsic value. Two preliminary things to note. First, this is not used merely as a normatively neutral descriptive statement; its stated as a criticism. It usually appears in the following kind of argument, often with premises elided: its bad to lack intrinsic value. Bitcoin lacks intrinsic value. So bitcoin is bad. Or maybe: its not worth investing in things that lack intrinsic value. Bitcoin lacks intrinsic value. So, its not worth investing in bitcoin.