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Bitcoin has value because they think other people perceive it to have value. Same with dollars, euros, pesos, etc. It's not like art where the value is in the eye of the beholder. It's something where you have to be confident that other people will perceive it to have value too, so when you want to exchange it, there will be other people who will accept it.
Dollars, euros, pesos, etc. have value because they're accepted in thousands of stores, and because you need them to pay your taxes. Even if you, personally, don't think you'll need to hold onto any pesos to pay your own taxes, you know that there are likely to be millions of other people who will need them for their taxes.
With bitcoin, there are essentially no places you can use it to pay taxes, except maybe El Salvador (I don't know if they're still doing that). You can't use it to pay in many stores. Just about the only thing that keeps creating demand for bitcoin is that there aren't many other ways to pay off ransomware demands. Unlike traditional currencies, Bitcoin really relies on the belief that someone else will continue to believe that Bitcoin is still valuable.
Will the bubble eventually burst? I think so. I just think it could stagger on for a few more decades before the belief it has value eventually collapses.