This has probably been discussed before but I want to raise it again...
can bitcoins be destroyedYou can burn fiat currency...so can you destroy a bitcoin? Is it possible? How would you go about it? How would it effect the economy and how would someone find about it if it occurred?
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I think you've already got an answer so I'll just join the throng not listening to your question and say:
Wasn't there a guy a year or two back saying he hated bitcoin so much, that he mined a ton at his place of work, just so he could through away the key.
To which everyone said "Do a flip!"