“I’m Confused About What Bitcoin Actually Is” — Ran Neuner Questions Crypto’s Core Narrative

In a Cointelegraph interview, Ran Neuner ponders Bitcoin’s identity crisis, market risks and the growing impact of macro trends.

In this Cointelegraph interview, Ran Neuner, a longtime voice in the crypto space, openly questions Bitcoin’s core narrative— as he admits he struggles to answer one simple question: why should people buy it?

“I don’t know how to answer that question. That’s the problem.”

Once pitched as peer-to-peer money and later reframed as digital gold, Bitcoin’s identity has become harder to define in practice, he argues, especially after failing to move in tandem with traditional store-of-value assets like gold in the last cycle.

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