blogospheroid comments on Bitcoins are not digital greenbacks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: blogospheroid 23 April 2013 10:47:52AM 1 point [-]

Right now, the best velocity measure seems to be coin days destroyed. But it is gameable. It is not being gamed in bitcoin because nothing is dependent on it.

The closest GDP measure in a cryptocurrency of the structure of bitcoin seems to be sum of transaction fees. It can be gamed by early adopters, but that is true of almost every measure