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legendary
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Gamble responsibly
May 10, 2021, 02:56:23 AM
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Bitcoin is something new. It seems to defy understanding. Has there ever been a fixed supply money? Is there another case of production cost varying directly with product
price? Is there anything else with a competitive yet fixed rate of transactability? To see past the hype, understand the value proposition, security model, and economic behavior, this may be your only source.
Bitcoin is not something new, it does not defy understanding but novice that knows nothing about bitcoin can say that. Only 21 million bitcoin will be created, only approximately 18.7 million have been mined. Is electricity cost constant? Are mining equipments prices constant, will maintenance cost be constant? Why will production cost be constant, it is not possible.

It is not new and you can not call anything with more than 10 years old is new. You can call it is immature instead.
That is correct, bitcoin is no more new because it is over 10 years old now, it is not also should be deemed immature even if it is still getting further to $100000 price or higher because its marketcap already is over $1 trillion, there are many mature assets that are not having such huge marketcap.
legendary
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Farewell o_e_l_e_o
May 10, 2021, 01:12:53 AM
#3
Bitcoin is something new.
It is not new and you can not call anything with more than 10 years old is new. You can call it is immature instead.

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It seems to defy understanding. Has there ever been a fixed supply money?
Bitcoin's total supply is fixed and well-known, @21 million Bitcoin. [1]

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Is there another case of production cost varying directly with product price?
Bitcoin network is operated by Proof-of-Work algorithm and miners confirm transactions as well as find new blocks. There are cost for each new Bitcoin block but the cost per new Bitcoin is different over time.

Why?
  • Electricity cost changes with time and with geographical locations
  • Assumes that electricity cost is constant (with time and geographical locations), block reward will be halved each 4 year that in turn causes different cost for one new Bitcoin.
  • Mining rigs investment costs change with time
  • Infrastructure set-up and maintenance cost will be changed with time
  • More

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Is there anything else with a competitive yet fixed rate of transactability?
Blocks are mined by miners [2] and there are two main factors on how fast miners will find new blocks:
  • Total hashrates on the network
  • Current difficulty on the network
  • With same difficulty, if network has higher hashrate, blocks will be found faster.
  • With same hashrate, if network has higher difficulty, blocks will be found slower.
Averagely, blocks are found each 10 minutes. Transactions will be chosen by miners from tip of mempool. It means if you broadcast your transaction with high fee-rate (sat/virtual byte - vbyte) on tip of mempool, miners will probably choose yours and confirm it firstly.

References
[1] Block reward
[2] The Mining ecosystem
legendary
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May 09, 2021, 11:21:12 PM
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Bitcoin is something new. It seems to defy understanding.
Bitcoin as a decentralized money is pretty easy to understand, there is nothing complicated there.
Bitcoin as a new technology using cryptography with a blockchain is hard to understand for those not familiar with these concepts but it doesn't "defy understanding".

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Has there ever been a fixed supply money?
Not one as strict as bitcoin.

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Is there another case of production cost varying directly with product price?
In a way, yes.
Imagine a product that starts being adopted by more people so the revenue of the producers increase. They decide to expand their production line to satisfy the demand and increase their profit more. They install new production lines, hire more employees, etc. effectively increasing their total production cost since the profit they were making was increased.

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Is there anything else with a competitive yet fixed rate of transactability?
Everything has a cap, there is no such thing as unlimited. Even VISA can handle a capped number of transaction rate.
newbie
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May 09, 2021, 04:24:51 PM
#1
Bitcoin is something new. It seems to defy understanding. Has there ever been a fixed supply money? Is there another case of production cost varying directly with product
price? Is there anything else with a competitive yet fixed rate of transactability? To see past the hype, understand the value proposition, security model, and economic behavior, this may be your only source.
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