A reporter challenged Solana Foundation president Lily Liu on why Bitcoin even belongs in the conversation. Her answer:
"As to your comment as to why Bitcoin has any value at all, one could ask the same about gold and why does gold have any value at all?
But what fundamentally drives the value of gold is, yes, the fact that you can exchange it, there is social belief in it and you can have some industrial reasons around it.
But fundamentally, it's the social belief."
"Bitcoin is the original blockchain and created this entire industry...
Bitcoin decided to do what I think is right for Bitcoin, which is Bitcoin is the asset, the digital asset of record, the store of value, digital gold, if you will.
That is not to the exclusion of everything we're talking about now, which is around tokenization, enabling full capital markets to exist onchain."
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