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Wei Dai called Bitcoin's fixed supply a failure in 2013. His own 1998 b-money design needed the same real-world value figure Satoshi said software has no way to know.
Five AI models were asked the same question and independently picked the same coin. Fact-checking their reasons: structural claims held up, confident superlatives mostly did not.
Dogecoin has no whitepaper, no company, and no cap on its supply — a decade-old test of whether Bitcoin's scarcity is what a market actually pays for.
Bitcoin Cash inherited Bitcoin's ledger and 21 million cap at the 2017 fork, then split twice more under implementation teams with no single founder to arbitrate.
A fiat-collateralized design CENTRE named as a trade-off in its own whitepaper, a reserve that broke the dollar peg for two days in 2023, and a governing consortium later folded into one company.
No supply cap, a fee burn that can push issuance negative, and a 2022 switch from mining to staking — Ethereum's own design documents, read against Bitcoin's fixed 21 million.
A relay chain coordinating parachains, nominated proof-of-stake, and the 2025 vote that capped a decade of roughly-10-percent issuance -- Polkadot's design, read against Bitcoin's fixed 21 million.
Registered dogecoin.com as a joke about altcoin proliferation, left the community in 2015, called Bitcoin cult-like in 2018, and in 2021 rejected the whole industry in public.
The whitepaper's title names a payment system; section 6's gold is an issuance analogy. Satoshi designed one thing — hard issuance, cash use — whose scarcity later tilted it toward digital gold.
Bitcoin's 'digital gold' status rests on two layers of decentralization — system and people/organization — and six structural features no later cryptocurrency combines to the same degree.
How Bitcoin's 21 million cap emerges from a geometric halving series, how block rewards transition from subsidy to fees, and how the incentive model sustains honest mining.
What Satoshi's design assumed about a fee-only future, and the documented debate over whether transaction fees alone can sustain proof-of-work security after the block subsidy ends around 2140.
Adam Back replies to Wei Dai on Cypherpunks, identifying seven monetary-design issues in b-money and proposing Hashcash as the minting mechanism — a substantive analysis ten years before Bitcoin.