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Comment by ngpio

> Bitcoin would help because it is a fixed-supply currency. If the world switches to it, no government anywhere will be able to practise inflation anymore.

Correct, no government could, but inflation is innate to the cryptocurrency environment as a whole, even if the current popular coins have capped supplies (dogecoin being a notable exception [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin#Currency_supply

parent ngpio 12 years ago

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