This reads oddly to me. In particular, I don't see what makes any of this narrative different to anything else you can make or sell. Indeed, most folks that are making money are doing it by selling their labor or thought work. That is, any discussion of "intrinsic value" is doomed to be axiomatic. Things have value largely because we agree for them to have value. And indeed, a ton of "wealth" is built up on the value others place on things you own. In the "real world" it gets crazy in the modern finance world, as much of your cash spend will be based on borrowed money. For business, it is common for much of your current inventory to be heavily on financed currency. (Well, I thought it was, having to check that claim.)

This isn't necessarily a praise/defense of crypto currencies. At large, I confess I don't understand what value they have if it isn't reflected outside the chain they are counted in. I just don't understand this take on trying to find intrinsic value of it. There is none. Same as the paper in my wallet.

I do find the artificial scarcity of in game items amusing. The scarcity is, essentially, required for many of the plot points in so many novels. When it starts happening, though, we rightly recoil at the absurdity of it.