Vitalik says ETH is like a special coin you keep in a piggy bank because the computer game it lives in is very hard for anyone to boss around or break Some people thought the coin gets more special when bits of it disappear every time someone plays the game, but that idea was never as strong as it looked, because a lot of those disappearances came from other coin games, not from real outside stuff If we tried super hard to make more coins disappear so the rest seem more valuable, the game would have to start acting like a big company with bosses who spend lots of money and make lots of new rules and that would make it less free. It is better to keep the game free and steady so people trust the coin to stay safe, especially when the world changes a lot with clever computers.