“Bitcoin” is a unit, not an object. Bitcoins don’t have numbers any more than miles or kilograms or degrees Celsius do.

> “Bitcoin” is a unit, not an object

It's both. Bitcoin and U.S. dollars are units. Bitcoins and dollar bills are countable.

> Bitcoins don’t have numbers any more than miles or kilograms or degrees Celsius do

Here [1] is a coin. Here [2] is another.

[1] https://blockchain.info/address/1EHNa6Q4Jz2uvNExL497mE43ikXh...

[2] https://blockchain.info/address/1JMcEcKXQ7xA7JLAMPsBmHz68bzu...

Those are not “coins”, they are addresses, which anyone can generate for free. Coins (strictly speaking, “amounts of bitcoin”) can be sent to and from them, but those coins don’t have an identity. Transactions and addresses have numbers; “bitcoins” don’t.

Dumber things have made outrageous sums

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company

And the classic:

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

If were able to get ahold of a whole collectable super-lucky celebrity bitcoin, then you could sell it off in pieces:

http://www.hundredmillionsatoshihomepage.com