It is literally printing money , but the value of that money is set by participants real time. Like if you have 100 of mkt cap , it is 100 by consensus of buyers and sellers. If everyone sold, the cap presale would be 0 … if 10% of people bought, the cap would seemingly vanish down to <10 and the money would figuratively unprint. it is a property of what economists call market asset pricing (the act of)