Oh, also you paid $100 for NOTHING. The real “trick” here is convincing you to pay anything at all for limited permission to use a mathematical construct (sequence of bits).
What’s the relevance of this point? How is this more of a trick than selling land, or the combination numbers to open a safe containing some valuable object? Information is the foundation of all property arrangements—and pretty much all other coordination too.
What’s the relevance of this point? How is this more of a trick than selling land, or the combination numbers to open a safe containing some valuable object? Information is the foundation of all property arrangements—and pretty much all other coordination too.
I think it was a half-joke, trying to illustrate how you can frame arbitrary things as “tricks” without it really getting you anywhere.
I can be intentionally obtuse about lots of things without it really getting me anywhere.