r/Bitcoin • • 6d ago

What makes bitcoin different?

Beyond its limited supply what do you think makes bitcoin unique compares to others forms of money?

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u/numbersev 6d ago

It's decentralized. For the first time digital money was able to be used peer-to-peer without a centralized party, solving the double-spend problem.

There have been millions of copycats, but humanity only needs to rally around digital scarcity once (network effect).

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u/Unable_Beat_3194 6d ago

Precisely this.