Wait a minute. From looking over the bitcoin site, the process for currency creation is based upon CPU processing power? The argument given for limiting wealth creation is that, once bitcoin was used enough to have real value, the expense for electricity to perform the calculation approaches a higher amount than would be profitable by doing something else... First, not all computers will utilize electricity uniformly to perform the "calculations". Some computers are just horribly inefficient. Also, it's certainly possible to construct more power efficient computing devices, and do so without even talking about upcoming nano-technology and processing at the atomic scale which would make electricity costs at a macro scale negligible for even the most hard core computing. So right off the bat the bitcoin market does skew its participants with non-uniformity, and a thesis that almost certainly won't hold up within 50 years.