[muskox2]

If no more bitcoins were mined, you couldn't move bitcoins around. You can only include new transactions by mining a new block.

[nikanj]

It could move to the exchanges moving around IOUs. It's not like actual gold moves around every time I buy some on the internet, someone just moves data in a giant excel somewhere.

[Triv888]

Isnt that one thing that the lightning network can solve?

[muskox2]

Ultimately, you need to be able to settle lightning transactions on the actual chain.