Value is subjective. I value my SATs at over 1 dollar per sat. My values are expressed by me not selling for anything less. The market equilibrium is always made up of just a few trades at any given time. Why would everyone have to spend to express their value?

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I agree with your valuation but we aren't interacting with the market by hodling. We are just storing economic value for a future interaction. The market equilibrium is exactly the problem. If there was more use of Bitcoin as a currency then you solve the corruption that can happen to the market by small #s of participants trading on exchanges. You also grow the network by making the underlying asset have more usability. Spending dollars adds economic activity to that market making it more usable to merchants because of wider adoption. We have to break the pattern.