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Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to... by retube on Saturday July 05, 2025 @05:10AM (#44471283)
> I can tell you down to the day how many bitcoin there will be decades from now

So what? if you say "scarcity", that by itself has no value. plenty of things are scarce, but are not valuable, no one wants it.

And anyway, bitcoin is not even scarce. there are thousands of other coins now, anyone can create one, these will / are diluting the $$$ going into btc

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Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to... by MangoToupe on Saturday July 05, 2025 @06:34AM (#44471698)
Not to mention this will effectively be an overestimate given loss of bitcoin to wallets whose owners lost the key.
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