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Digital scarcity

Bitcoin creates digitally verifiable scarcity through consensus rules that prevent arbitrary issuance and double spending.

Context

Why it matters

Bitcoin creates digitally verifiable scarcity through consensus rules that prevent arbitrary issuance and double spending.

Canonical knowledge

What California Bitcoin maintains

  • Bitcoin creates digitally verifiable scarcity through consensus rules that prevent arbitrary issuance and double spending.

Primary and technical sources

Evidence before assertion
Bitcoin Developer Documentation

Bitcoin.org

Tier — · technicalBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Satoshi Nakamoto

Tier 1 · primary

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