I just saw an interesting exchange in the crypto community worth commenting on. Michael Saylor has been arguing that the limited supply of Bitcoin makes it virtually impossible for the global population to own the cryptocurrency, but Samson Mow, CEO of Jan3, responded with a straightforward mathematical analysis to refute that position.



Samson Mow's point is simple but effective: if we take the 21 million Bitcoins and distribute them evenly among the 8.1 billion people on the planet, each person could have approximately 259,259 satoshis. Basically, he's saying that the narrative of absolute scarcity doesn't hold up if we talk about theoretical distribution.

Now, what's interesting is that Samson Mow acknowledges that although the numbers work in theory, reality is quite different. MicroStrategy, Saylor's company, already controls around 3.5% of the entire Bitcoin supply. And he's not the only one. Corporations and institutions continue to accumulate aggressively, which actually reinforces the scarcity narrative that Saylor was raising.

At its core, Samson Mow is questioning whether there is really a problem of insufficient supply, but at the same time, he recognizes that the behavior of large accumulators makes Bitcoin increasingly scarce in practice. It's one of those debates where both sides are right from different perspectives: mathematically, there's enough, but in terms of actual distribution and accessibility, scarcity is real and likely to grow.
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