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That is circular reasoning. Bitcoin is also a collectable, with a fixed number of them (21 million) out there to collect.

Every investment we are talking about is only rare because the community that participates in it has decided they are rare. Otherwise there is nothing stopping me from taking a picture of a piece of art or trading card and reproducing it a million times.



> Bitcoin is also a collectable, with a fixed number of them (21 million) out there to collect.

Bitcoin is fungible, unlike collectibles. There is no value to holding one bitcoin vs another, if "different bitcoins" even makes sense as a concept.

It can also be subdivided, so it is more accurate to say that there are 21 trillion units that will be out there.


Gold is also fungible, as is any physical or virtual currency, water, oil, any sneaker run, a collectible figure from a video game. Non-fungibility is not a requirement for value.


> Bitcoin is fungible

Just looking this up makes clear that this is not really the case.




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