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A comment on Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong. Parent comment

Re:Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubbl... by tome on Saturday February 17, 2018 @06:19AM (#16400208)
> particular cryptocurrency supply is truly limited, unlike gold

It is dimensionally incorrect to compare abundance of (a particular) cryptocurrency with gold.

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Re:Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubbl... by bufferoverflow on Saturday February 17, 2018 @08:03AM (#16400485)
Well, you could compare the number of satoshis with the number of atoms of gold, or grams of gold, or even tons of gold.

Satoshis are still more rare.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090614042422A...

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Re:Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubbl... by mythrwy on Saturday February 17, 2018 @09:46AM (#16400867)
Likewise one could make the argument it is dimensionally incorrect to compare abundance of a particular cryptocurrency (bitcoin) with all the different element in the periodic table.
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