stackyFACTSScarcity is a hilarious concept when applied to pixels. Runescape distributed cosmetic party hats for a holiday event in 2001, intended to be utterly worthless. Because they were discontinued, those identical hats are now traded for billions of virtual gold, acting as the ultimate status symbol for digital oligarchs.
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