Damus
Bored Satoshi · 88w
Bitcoin will be less and less deflationary going forward. We will have better tools to hold and spend our sats. Bitcoin is a fixed supply currency. Currencies with inflation will go out of fashion.
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It has to be deflationary if the economy grows because the same amount of Bitcoin will represent an increasing amount of goods and services on offer and it can only do that by lowering the price per good or service.

A deflationary currency discourages spending which in turn tampers the economy. It's Bitcoin's self defeating mechanism, or for that matter the self defeating mechanism of any fixed supply currency.

That's why the dollar had to be detached from gold. While the amount of gold is increasing it's nowhere increasing as fast as the economy.
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Bored Satoshi · 88w
I don't even know where to start ahahahaha
DataNostrum · 88w
"That's why the dollar had to be detached from gold." No, Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold in 1971 because some countries (e.g. France) were demanding to redeem dollars for gold as originally promised under Bretton Woods, but the US very likely did not have enough gold to cover the dollars it h...