Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nivertech 1464 days ago
There are 4 types of scarcity:

1. real real-world scarcity

2. artificial real-world scarcity

3. artificial digital scarcity

4. real digital scarcity

Bitcoin's scarcity is (3).

(4) is the holy grail, but it's seemingly impossible b/c of the double-spend problem (easy copying).

Bitcoin's scarcity is artificial.

Even if it was real, since it allows forks - it's unlimited:

   21e6 * (1 + nForks)
where

   nForks → ∞
Using the twitter analogy: yes, you can only use up to 280 characters in a tweet, but you can have an unlimited number of tweets in a tweet storm ;)

Here's why artificial scarcity doesn't work:

https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/918617991754977281

https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/861547849821155328