Why try to be grateful: The flexibility to carry your individual cash is a part of the worth proposition of most cryptocurrencies. From the angle of the Bitcoin system, one of many worth propositions is that there’s a finite, provably scarce variety of bitcoin. If exchanges have been discovered to be circulating an quantity in extra of the variety of bitcoin issued (i.e., they’re promoting paper, faux bitcoins moderately than actual bitcoins) we may: a) out some bad-faith actors within the area and b) see some loopy worth motion because the demand for “actual, precise” bitcoin spikes dramatically.