Ask HN: Could a digital collectible be as valuable as a physical collectible?

Bitcoin, csgo skins, virtual items in plenty of games, property in secondlife are a few examples.

There was a post on io9 a few months ago about the value of "cards" in the Star Wars Card Trader app: http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-the-hell-is-this-jpg-of-han-solo-...

Magic: The Gathering has a full online game where you can buy boosters, trade cards, etc etc etc.

Check out some of the items traded on Steam, specifically for CS:GO, and Dota2. The 'value' can be shocking, considering they're generated items with zero certainty around further duplication.

I urge you to look into the price of 'party hats' in runescape. They were released only on Christmas 2001, and since then have blown up in real dollars.

Seems like the TF2 economy is a good example of this.