141 and 142 seem in contradiction WRT to bitcoin :
"Engrossing" bitcoin to enhance the price doesn't harm anyone and even
"further[s] the wealth and outward estate of others, as well as our own"
141 and 142 seem in contradiction WRT to bitcoin :
"Engrossing" bitcoin to enhance the price doesn't harm anyone and even
"further[s] the wealth and outward estate of others, as well as our own"
That refers to withholding supply of a good to *artificially* increase price (think de Beers and diamonds), rather than letting the market dictate. That would be a form of fraud. But bitcoin as money is something that we save, not a product we make and sell as some sort of monopolist. Make sense?