• nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 day ago

      If its part of an idle stack not taking part in trading, it does not. Imagine the dev having enough so that dumping 1% of their stash tanks the price to 1% of current value. Burning this 1% makes no difference.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      I’ll send you 16.000 bazillion Yiffyean Dollars if you give me your home address. Look how charitable I am!

      You know what, let it be 17.000 bbazillion Yiffyean Dollars.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          11
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 day ago

          Dude it’s literary cryptocurrency, it’s the very definition of made up currency.

            • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              8
              ·
              1 day ago

              It’s worth 1 million if you can find someone prepared to give you one million dollars for it. If you can’t find someone to give you one million dollars for it then it isn’t worth 1 million.

              The whole reason that currency is worth the amount that we say it is is because everyone accepts that it is a currency and and that it can be used for goods and services. A random cryptocurrencies produced by an individual who may or may not have GTA 6 game files don’t have that consensus.

                • lad@programming.dev
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  ·
                  18 hours ago

                  In general, yes

                  In this case it’s more like if everyone is selling eggs $1/egg, but the tag shows the price based on the last transaction, so when someone buys an egg for $10 you suddenly increase everyone’s worth ten times. If they start selling the price may collaps faster than they can sell

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 day ago

        It’s not worth anything. A dollar sign next to a randomly generated big number does not mean that that randomly generated big number could be converted into US dollars or any other currency.

        They are just unallocated crypto tokens, deleting these simply increases the value of the ones that haven’t been deleted, no value has actually been lost. Is the dev was deleting tokens from an active wallet it would be different.