Belief that there's some Platonic ideal of "value" against which currencies should be measured
I find it funny how fans of mainstream economics mock goldbugs about this, while at the same time basing a large part of their own theories on a far more extreme Platonic concept of "real" values calculated using price indexes.
I do not have the impression that mainstream economists subscribe to a Platonic concept of "real" values. (Or maybe I'm just confused about what you mean.) Can you cite an example of this (i.e., a paper or article that describes or assumes such a concept)?
We've started a habit of creating periodic Bitcoin threads to confine discussion thereof to those threads and prevent excessive proliferation of Bitcoin topics in the discussion section. Here is a link to the last one, which links the other discussions. Lot's to talk about, and another bounce in Bitcoin's value (up to 33 then down to 24), so share your links and thoughts!