i can sell you snake oil for $50,000 a gram and as long as theres some sort of complicated mystery to it like "decentralized, trustless , blah blah blah"
then you can convince millions of people to buy into your ponzi scheme for years
and pay any amount you want as long as its that convincing to enough people
and most people are stupid retards
bitcoin should have came out and never gained popularity it would be runescape gold. like wtf why the heck would i care about someone printing their own money when its not backed by gold
thats worth less than paper
because now its just digital. digital coins are worth less than the paper its printed on
satoshi should have just handed out pieces of paper with the word bitcoin on it it would have more value than a bitcoin