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Sending money overseas with bitcoin doesn't exhaust the supply of bitcoin. The bitcoin isn't consumed - it's converted from useful money to bitcoin at one end,

Sending money overseas with bitcoin doesn't exhaust the supply of bitcoin. The bitcoin isn't consumed - it's converted from useful money to bitcoin at one end, and bitcoin to useful money at the other. While a limited supply of bitcoin would limit the throughput, the ledger calculation already does that, and at a much lower rate. So it's not as if any utility immediately lends bitcoin value.

conanbatt 9y ago
It does because transfering that money takes blocks of operations to happen, which means you cant transfer infinite amounts of bitcoin in a finite amount of time. You have a limit of how much btc you can move between addresses.