Store of Value — What Are You Selling?

Do we know what “store of value” means…

Bitcoin in a red shawl carrying the head of a Bitcoin investor (Painting by Caravaggio c. 1609, at the Palacio Real de Madrid, image by Wikimedia Commons)

I do not think it means what you think it means…

In many conversations about savings and investments and currencies, we hear the phrase “store of value” thrown around.

In one of my favorite cult movies of all time, The Princess Bride, there is a…