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Old 10-18-2011, 11:50 PM  
Serge Litehead
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> Lastly, the claim of there will be only 21,000,000 created. If BitCoin takes off, they will go up in value as more people need them. At some point they will become so valuable, most people can't afford them and the market will collapse or suddenly more will be created causing deflation.

Bitcoin's internal accounting is done in 0.00000001 base units of Bitcoin, so in case of huge demand each bitcoin can account for 100,000,000 smallest units called Satoshi's, times 21million

If that won't be enough, then community could decide to move decimal point even further, making in reality nearly unlimited amount to supply all demand
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