On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:44 57AM, Jon Callas wrote:
> I was sitting around the other weekend with some friends and we were talking
> about Bitcoin, and gossiping furiously about it. While we were doing so, an
> interesting property came up.
>
> Did you know that if a Bitcoin is destroyed, then the value of all the other
> Bitcoins goes up slightly?
Mmm -- the curve isn't monotonic; once the distribution of bitcoins gets
sufficiently small, you can buy less with it, because there are fewer
acceptors. This in turn hurts the purchasing power, which means that
completely cornering the market is bad for the actor who does it. This
suggests that there's another critical parameter needed for your model.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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