Bitcoin’s scarcity is rooted in the fact that there are scarce items in the digital realm: rare numbers.
Some of the rarest numbers are prime numbers.
Primes become incredibly scarce after 100 billion, so much so that there continues to be a global mathematical search underway for the latest prime number.
— The Little Bitcoin Book, p. 32
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