The wildest thing about Bitcoin isn't the price swings or the digital gold debates. It's that Satoshi built in the ultimate scarcity flex: 21 million coins, hard stop, coded into the protocol forever.

Think about it. Gold? We keep finding more. Oil? New reserves pop up. Dollars? The printer goes brrr whenever politicians need it to. But Bitcoin literally cannot exceed 21 million no matter who wants it, who needs it, or what crisis hits the world.

We're watching this play out in real time. El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender and had to buy it on the open market like everyone else. Major corporations are stacking sats. Countries are quietly accumulating. But the supply? Still capped at 21 million, with about 2 million already lost forever to forgotten passwords and dead hard drives.

The psychology is insane. Every other asset in human history could theoretically be produced in greater quantities if demand spiked enough. More houses, more oil drilling, more gold mining, more currency printing. Bitcoin just sits there like that friend who refuses to budge on plans, completely immune to outside pressure.

What makes it even wilder is that we're not even at 21 million yet, and probably never will be since coins keep getting lost. The final Bitcoin won't be mined until around 2140, but the scarcity effect is already baked into every transaction happening today.