This is a shower thought...
If there's 21 million and 100 million sats per
Not being funny but there's been literally quintillions of tx's
Are you telling me that there are not a few mistakes rattling around the system?
Are there any sats somewhere that shouldn't be there?
I just think with the Lightning network the cashu stuff the main network 🙄
Wtf it's mind boggling
The way I look at mistakes are UTXOs with lost keys. They will just pile up.
The unit of bitcoin is anUTXO, not a sat. Sat is just a denomination but they can’t really be moved - a UTXO is required for the “movement” of any sats.
There is a very small number of UTXOs relative to the pooulation of the world and hard limits on the creation of new o es and the exchange rates of current ones - this is what has so many panties in a bundle.
Cool question.
Sats don't exists, just like a meter as a measure of distance is not a physical thing.
Keep in mind, cashu tokens are IOUs of sats; not actual sats. It is inevitable that there will be (are?) cashu mints that issue more IOUs than the UTXOs they control to back them up. At least those 'mistakes' will be siloed to their respective mints.
