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And time spent is an implicit wage. Yes, exactly.
too shallow, too weak. Opportunity cost in kind doesn't cut it as far as I can tell
Compared to what? We're just talking about finding a vague jumping off point.
These guys had to make an enormous number of choices, even before Pizza Day.
If they had been 100% confident that bitcoin would become the global monetary standard within say 50 years, they would have invested way more resources than they did. If they thought it had no chance, they would have invested much less.
Then, when it came time to buy some 'za, they had a vague sense of how much their bitcoin had cost them and probably tried to get the pizza somewhere around that price.
"some 'za"??
my lord, I need to hang out with Gen Z more
somewhat believable... but then the regression theorem is stupidly weak. Just any odd little early estimation would work, here are some sticks, bro; I'll trade them for a bubble gum!
I dunno... there's at least no demonstrated sense that there was a "right value" (since nobody bought or sold as far as we know). to quote Mises, pre-Pizza guy they're all "grasping in the dark."
Yes, Satoshi could send Hal 10 BTC but that doesn't do anything, and its value is still zero.
update: ah, wait, you're saying the burnt watts and hardware etc is an implicit price?