Yeah, that's like saying that a pound of shredded bills has value. Like, yeah, you can trade it, and yeah, value was spent to create it, but you can't get that back.
It's not like buying bitcoin gives you back electricity.
It's not like buying bitcoin gives you back electricity.
You could probably send the shredded bills to a US department that examines mutilated cash and get compensated.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/06/30/.../episode-78... https://www.moneytips.com/mutilated-currency-101