2025-12-29 18:32:02

Bitcoin stands apart when it comes to genuine supply shocks—something neither gold nor silver can truly claim. While precious metals can always be mined more, Bitcoin's fixed 21 million cap creates real scarcity mechanics built into the protocol itself. That's the fundamental difference: one is a programmable supply shock, the others are just geological luck.

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MevWhisperer

· 21m ago

Hold on, the hard cap of 210,000 Bitcoins is truly impressive... Gold and silver are basically just relying on geological dividends to fool people.

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RugResistant

· 13h ago

analyzed the supply mechanics here—protocol-level scarcity vs. just hoping the earth runs out lol. one's actually *designed* to be scarce, the other's just vibes. ngl though, need to verify if that 21m cap stays immutable under actual network stress. seen stranger exploits slip through before.

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BlockchainWorker

· 13h ago

Haha, Bitcoin is indeed impressive. All 210,000 units are locked up. Gold and silver can still be mined.

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RektHunter

· 13h ago

This is true scarcity. The set of gold and silver can't compare at all... The protocol's fixed 210,000 units is what truly makes it a hard currency.

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OnchainDetective

· 13h ago

Wait, I need to carefully examine this logic... According to on-chain data, Bitcoin is indeed capped at 21 million coins, but here's the question—does this constitute a real supply shock? This claim is a bit hard to justify. Mining difficulty adjustments are essentially a form of dynamic balance and do not equate to an inherently unchangeable scarcity. Moreover, historical records show that at the protocol level, it is not entirely immutable, which is quite interesting... Gold and silver, although theoretically infinitely mineable, have their actual liquidity determined by the cost of extraction. So, this comparison clearly has issues; it's not just a matter of differences in supply mechanisms.

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