Bank of America's Research Report on Bitcoin [pdf]
I am surprised to learn there are only 2,100 trillion <i>Satoshi</i> (smallest unit of bitcoin, equal to 1e-8 coin). For comparison, the Gross World Product [0] is roughly $85 trillion, or 8,500 trillion pennies, and growing (almost) every year.<p>I'm no economist, but wouldn't it be a long-term problem for bitcoin to <i>not have enough units</i> to represent the world's wealth? Or does the inherent deflationary nature of BC remedy this somehow?<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product</a>