I find the bits in bold very telling. Spot the desperation, the frustration - if only it had any value at all for whatever reason.
Are we applying
bold in an attempt to accentuate your own narrative perhaps? As regards the desperation and frustration, that's not my reading of it. In fact, without flat out asking Satoshi, nobody can interpret that. Are you a professional mind reader?
She knows that from Mises theorem it has to have some intrinsic value.
I'd suggest you read it again. You are reading what you want to see - not what is actually there. Yes, Satoshi ruminates over intrinsic value. However, what you're not honest about is that Satoshi also ruminates over the fact that people could affix a value to it. Maybe you should consider
the fallacy of intrinsic value also - just to be thorough. By the way, that concept (of intrinsic value) does NOT include paper money. Contrary to what you've stated previously, paper money is backed by jack. If it is not so, why then is it that every year (or couple of years), we have a FIAT currency that unravels? If it had intrinsic value, then that couldn't possibly happen.
But she is not going to throw it all away having so nearly come up with a perfect solution.
That your Dukeness is once again a complete fiction. You are reading into something you couldn't possibly be able to determine - again to suit your world view.
So, but you can spot the skepticism, she accepts her friend's circular argument that if people see its usefulness for exchange it would get a value.
Again, your Dukeness - I can't spot any 'skepticism'. All I see is an open discussion. The idea that Satoshi is skeptical you have introduced yourself (as always, to support your narrative). Openminded and inclusive of all factors, yes. There is no information contained in that text which indicates that Satoshi is skeptical.
I suggest that as a further thought experiment imagine that bitcoin actually had intrinsic value. Then its price would never vary from its intrinsic value. Its precisely because it has no intrinsic value that its price is all over the place - nobody has any rational reason for giving it a price.
Satoshi indicates that it would be much easier for BTC to be adopted if it had a more compelling intrinsic value. That's the 'automatic bootstrap' alluded to. However, the rumination continues that Satoshi sees that whilst it's more difficult, if it sits alongside something that doesn't have intrinsic value, then it stands a chance at adoption.
As regards its price being all over the place, this circumstance has not happened in human history. We are going through a phase of price discovery. I always tell you - and I'll keep telling you as it's fundamentally important and perhaps one day it will sink in - that you are disparaging in your assessment of Bitcoin as you will only consider it's status right now. You will not accept that it is in a state of ongoing development, you will not accept that the infrastructure surrounding it continues to be built out. Furthermore, you will not accept that the network effects have not been fully felt yet.
With that, bitcoin has been more volatile in the past than it is today. The affixing of value and trading of same is a cornerstone of civilisation and goes back to the very beginning of civilisation. If you take a breath and back up for a minute, perhaps you might see the bigger picture. Bitcoin (and crypto generally) is young, embryonic and as yet, not fully matured. With time, price discovery will settle and the volatility will dissipate.
I accept the case you make that there is a substantial demand for what bitcoin claims to deliver. But in the end of the day it delivers nothing but a Permanent, immutable, Transparent, Borderless, Neutral, Programmable, entry on a blockchain and as Satoshi worried - where is the value in that?
You were going so well with that statement until you prejudiced it with a falsehood right at the end. Satoshi didn't 'worry'...Satoshi ruminated over intrinsic value and came to the conclusion that with limited supply, bitcoin stands a chance of adoption when stood next to paper money which has no intrinsic value itself - only sentiment. You can't say for a second that Satoshi 'worried' - where does the word 'worry' appear in the text? I've said Satoshi 'ruminated' as it's as clear as day that this was a thought provoking discussion that was underway.