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		psychlops 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attac... Companies can make more baseball cards and beanie babies. Enforced scarcity gives bitcoin value.

pezezin 4 months ago | [–]

The scarcity of Bitcoin is just a single line of code, not some magical mathematical property.

kjkjadksj 4 months ago | [–]

No they can’t. Collectors value certain production runs. It is enforced scarcity.

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