Bitcoin is the innovation created by Satoshi, a unique combination of cryptography and other innovations from preceding years and decades. Bitcoin, the digital asset and the network protocol, are the *invention*. This invention allowed for the *discovery* of digital scarcity. This discovery is a one time occurrence. Digital scarcity, as a monetary good, is a one time thing. It cannot happen again. Bitcoin is forever, for as long as humanity chooses to use it.