You know, I'm listening to that new Saylor podcast and it's funny.. they mention two things separately but don't seem to rub these two thoughts together.

1. Saylor says you can't roll into someone else's country and start killing people because their Bitcoin is in their head and there would be nothing to seize.

2. The most virtuous thing you can do is die with your keys because your loss is everyone else's gain.

..... Isn't there technically some form of incentive structure there for bitcoiners to murder each other, given every all lost bitcoin increases the value of the rest?

Like, if 50% of all bitcoiners lived on an island, don't the other 50% stand to gain from a sudden major loss of life there?

Grim thought.

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Yeah, but isn’t the personal benefit of killing a whole-coiner so small compared to the personal risk/cost that no one will ever do it? It’ll be a slow response, so over maybe a decade you’ll make like .0001% of a return and risk life in jail / being killed as punishment.

fast forward 10yrs where globally 10% humans are heavy holders are bitcoin. say one country, for example China, tend to hold more than global average, 15%. if there was some devastating disaster or horrific attack that wiped out China, two competing forces it pertains to bitcoin;

1) a chunk of those BTC savings may be eliminated from available supply thus support BTC exchange price

VERSUS

2) An entire economic population being wiped out that will no longer demand nor save in bitcoin pressuring downwards BTC exchange price