Your reference to cryptocurrency is interesting, those of us in finance always knew it was not currency and never will be. Lots and lots of people lost lots and lots of money thinking it was money - it’s an investable asset. Big difference.
You are right that stryde is measuring something real, much like cryptocurrency is a measure of wasted processing power, it’s just not measuring what I want it to measure.
It’s just money, it’s not real…just pieces of paper with pictures on it, so we don’t have to kill each other just to get food.
But money is just a concept as well. It’s not “real” either. Trading ten chickens for a cow is “real”. Paying for them with money is just an imagined concept of humans. It doesn’t make it any less valid than something “real” - the fact the whole world buys into that myth makes it real in all meaningful ways, but that doesnt mean the underlying concept is still just that.
Which comes back to my original point. Money is like stryd. Trading ten chickens for a cow is a torque measuring power meter. 
Do I need to start a philosophy thread, and one for film quotes too?#
Dillon! You son-of-a-b!tch!
I’ve had this conversation since I was a kid, and I know what you’re saying, but there are fundamental differences between “imaginary” and “backed by a nation state that holds nuclear weapons”.
I’ll keep that cow for now! 
A few things
WKO5 separates Running Power from Cycling Power. I just checked. Stryd is giving me some useful metrics that are encouraging me to run… So I am pleased with it.
The current cryptocurrencies are old school. Quantum Money (hybrid or digital) is the future.
You lot seemed to be more informed on the relative merits or lack of of running power meters, but I can give you a run for your money on the second point (puns intended) as I have spent some time researching this and delivering lectures around the topic.
I’m always happy to learn something new… 
Is that graph the value of Sterling?
It does show my Phenotype Run as ‘Time-Trialer-Type’ though,., cough and so I think we can ignore that
WK05 , worthwhile investment over WK04?
but what if 8 of those chickens were actually sparrows but made to look like chickens? Are they still valid? Take the massive issues with shimano crank based PM’s giving variable quality torque readings. Its all well and good measuring torque, but if that torque isn’t a chicken then you are better off with money as its more reliable.
Unfortunately no idea yet. Never used WKO4 and I have not really played around with it yet. Just capturing the data. What I can say is that the UI could be a lot better…
Will we end-up talking about leverage on sub prime mortgage portfolios soon?
I was wondering where this was going. I was going to post today’s positive movement in GBP/EUR FX rate after your comment about the Power Graph representing the decline of sterling
you can measure ‘power’, certainly, it is how you interpret it effectively that I am yet to hear…
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channelling Sloggers…
how does the accelerometer know whether it is using the force to counter vertical oscillation from knee flexion in stance or vertical oscillation from stride mechanics?
Stryd have released some white papers on various things. As an example: https://storage.googleapis.com/stryd_static_assets/stryd-metric-validation.pdf
I believe there are some third party ones as well that DCR has made reference to, but I couldn’t immediately find them
