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> What fundamentally prevents us from creating a digital analog of gold?

You can infinitely copy information. It's in the article.



Yeah, I read the article. My question was what really prevents the existence of some cryptographic operation that would allow us to "port" the laws of physics to the digital space, so that when information moves we could enforce that the sender no longer has it and the receiver does.


That primitive has not been invented (maybe yet). Till then, we have Bitcoin.




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