Bitcoin vs Fiat - isn't this a bit of a double standard?

[FreeMoney]

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Despite being modeled as digital gold, bitcoin isn't: gold has intrinsic value (it would have value if it were not a medium of exchange), though the intrinsic value of gold is a lot less than the exchange value.
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Namecoin has intrinsic value. Does that mean namecoin comes closer to digital gold than bitcoin?

What because you do something in the Namecoin system with a namecoin that is intrinsic value?

You can do something in the Bitcoin system with a bitcoin too.

[finkleshnorts]

Most of gold's value, by far, is not its so-called "intrinsic" value, but rather its speculative value.

[Timo Y]

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Despite being modeled as digital gold, bitcoin isn't: gold has intrinsic value (it would have value if it were not a medium of exchange), though the intrinsic value of gold is a lot less than the exchange value.
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Namecoin has intrinsic value. Does that mean namecoin comes closer to digital gold than bitcoin?

What because you do something in the Namecoin system with a namecoin that is intrinsic value?

You can do something in the Bitcoin system with a bitcoin too.

Going with Pieter Wuille's definition of "intrinsic value":

Bitcoin would not have value if it were not a medium of exchange.

Namecoin would.