[yucky]

>Baseball cards are generally valued more than an equivalent-size rectangle of cardstock. Books are priced higher than a ream of paper; saying the value of a piece of art comes from its frame is usually an insult.

Not necessarily. There is more use for blank card stock than card stock damaged by some obscure overprinted card from the 1990's. You can't use it for anything, it's been "consumed" with the design. Same goes for shitty overprinted books or "art". An artist will pay for blank canvas, but not a painting my niece did of dogs playing poker.

So it goes back to the idea that a store of value is anything people agree stores value.

[randrews]

I think we're arguing over terminology. But "it takes resources to create" is not the same thing as "it stores those resources." That's the whole misconception with Bitcoin. It takes a lot of resources to make one and that value is lost forever, instead of being used on something productive.