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Re:An act to amend Financial and Corporations Codes relating... by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @06:03PM (#12258042)
> Missing is a definition of what "value" is.

Laws typically don't incorporate definitions of words used when they aren't used in a special sense in the law.

> My Bitcoin is a digital representation of the bits needed to solve a particular block.

No doubt.

> It doesn't represent value,

The "X needed for Y" have value to the extent Y has value; I would suggest that there is considerable evidence which might be marshaled that solving Bitcoin blocks has value.

So, I would think that your explanation of what Bitcoin does represent supports the conclusion that it is a digital representation of value, not that it is not such a representation.

Re:An act to amend Financial and Corporations Codes relating... by jsprogrammer on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @06:52PM (#12258262)
The word is very special to this law as it is the core word defining "Digital Currency":

>“Digital currency” means any digital representation of value

You can't classify something as digital currency without knowing what value means or how to measure it.

Re:An act to amend Financial and Corporations Codes relating... by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @06:55PM (#12258270)
> The word is very special to this law as it is the core word defining "Digital Currency":

It may be important to this law, but that doesn't mean that it is used specially (as in, in any but its most contextually-obvious general-use sense) in the law.

I mean, the meaning of "is" is also very important to the meaning of most laws, but is rarely defined in the enactment.

> You can't classify something as digital currency without knowing what value means

True, but that doesn't take a non-standard, law-specific definition.

> or how to measure it.

Untrue -- quantification of value is not relevant to the definition.

Re:An act to amend Financial and Corporations Codes relating... by jsprogrammer on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @08:02PM (#12258564)
If you show me a method of quantification, I can derive the definition.

Value is being discussed (even though you appear to be using an unrevealed definition) as a quantity (maybe, I am wrong, and it is not a quantity), which means there must be a way to quantify it.

Re:An act to amend Financial and Corporations Codes relating... by comex on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @09:12PM (#12258834)
Are you seriously trying to argue that Bitcoin is not a representation of value, or are you merely suggesting that there might be more ambiguous cases?
Re:An act to amend Financial and Corporations Codes relating... by jsprogrammer on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @09:45PM (#12258978)
I'm saying my coins were mined and only represent a solution to a vey specific problem.

For someone to claim that the numbers I hold represent something else, is an error.