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A promise of what, exactly? Who made that promise? How do I enforce it?


Well for once a finite unalterable coins.

There is a guarantee of negative inflation. There is noone who can out of blue print 1T of BTCs and give it to rich to stimulate economy.

Built in transferability so you dont have to rely on some organisations to facilitate transfers and charge you arbitrary amounts.

You don;t have to like those, or agree whether its good or bad but those things are set in stone for BTC.


> There is a guarantee of negative inflation. There is noone who can out of blue print 1T of BTCs and give it to rich to stimulate economy.

I would count this as a "con" and not a "pro". A fixed money supply is one of the things that caused a minor economic hiccup to turn into the Great Depression.

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w3488

Going to the equivalent of a digital gold standard is retrogradation:

* https://www.vox.com/2014/7/16/5900297/case-against-gold-stan...


That is literally what I said.

My point is that BTC has built in promises that cannot be broken.




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