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“Bitcoin” is a unit, not an object. Bitcoins don’t have numbers any more than miles or kilograms or degrees Celsius do.

• JumpCrisscross 9y ago
  > “Bitcoin” is a unit, not an object It's both. Bitcoin and U.S. dollars are units. Bitcoins and dollar bills are countable. > Bitcoins don’t have numbers any more than miles or kilograms or degrees Celsius do Here [1] is a coin. Here [2] is another. [1] https://blockchain.info/address/1EHNa6Q4Jz2uvNExL497mE43ikXhwF6kZm https://blockchain.info/address/1EHNa6Q4Jz2uvNExL497mE43ikXh... [2] https://blockchain.info/address/1JMcEcKXQ7xA7JLAMPsBmHz68bzugYtdrv https://blockchain.info/address/1JMcEcKXQ7xA7JLAMPsBmHz68bzu...
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  • umanwizard 9y ago
    Those are not “coins”, they are addresses, which anyone can generate for free. Coins (strictly speaking, “amounts of bitcoin”) can be sent to and from them, but those coins don’t have an identity. Transactions and addresses have numbers; “bitcoins” don’t.