[appleflaxen]

i don't understand your reasoning.

it seems like you're saying potato chips aren't scarce, because I can break the chips in my bag up until everyone in the world has a piece of potato chip, and thereby feed the world.

in economic terms, scarcity means that the supply is fixed. and bitcoin supply, by definition and network consensus, is fixed.

[oulrich]

Potato chips have some intrinsic utility. Coins (digital or otherwise) generally do not.

I think this is what makes 'breaking up potato chips' into a million pieces to solve hunger seem ridiculous. Where-as splitting a coin into values seems natural. To me at least.