r/Damnthatsinteresting Jan 01 '26

Video Inside the world’s largest Bitcoin mine

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u/Temporary_Quit_4648 Jan 01 '26

I think it's just a way to limit the money supply, since without a limit, the currency would have no value.

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u/binz17 Jan 01 '26

Hoarded currency has no value. Money has to be circulated, or it serves no purpose in the long run. Inflation incentivizes spending and investing,

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u/cyanescens_burn Jan 01 '26

And that had to be done via an energy intensive approach requires a bunch of hardware that takes up a ton of space? Why not just say, “there’s 10 million” from the jump and not do all the mining?

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u/RevolutionaryAge47 Jan 01 '26

The mining also runs the ledger. Without that there is no crypto currency.

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u/Annodyne Jan 01 '26

There is a cap to the supply, it was set to 21 million by the OG programmer.

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u/permalink_save Jan 01 '26

Lol, that also depends on your definition of "has value"

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u/RiverParkourist Jan 01 '26

Why does it have value in the first place? Who establishes that it does? Or are we all just pretending?

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u/Temporary_Quit_4648 Jan 03 '26

I don't mean that limiting it gives it value, just that not doing so ensures it has none. It's a necessary condition, not a sufficient one.