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Bitcoin is almost infinitely divisible.

The important part of there only being 21 million bitcoin is not how many pieces can there be.

The importance is that no one can make more of it.

Scarcity is important for several reasons and has been an age old problem of money. History shows consistently if money can be captured and corrupted it will be.

Scarcity is a critical aspect/property of money and why gold and other assets have retained value over time.

Properties of money explained by Robert Breedlove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjvMt0xaSUQ

If someone can adjust the quantity of money then they can benefit more than the general public by timing the increase or decrease for their benefit.

Whoever can arbitrarily increase or decrease the amount of a thing has more control than the general public giving them power and influence.

And if they get to keep the newly created thing (in this theoretical example, bitcoin), or decide who gets it, they get endless free money, power and influence and the revolution that bitcoin is (inviolable money and private property for all) would cease to exist.

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