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Re:Bitcoin Hash Rate Rapidly Growing Despite Price by cesarb on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:09PM (#17526258)
> But the number of bitcoins is mathematically capped.

The number of bitcoins is capped at a distant future date; but in the present, it continually increases. This is similar to how a curved Earth can appear to be locally flat. For now and for many years to come, the supply of bitcoins does inflate constantly.

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Re:Bitcoin Hash Rate Rapidly Growing Despite Price by JumpCrisscross on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:16PM (#17526319)
> the supply of bitcoins does inflate constantly

Inflation is a measure on prices, not money supply. Bitcoin’s money supply is increasing. It is, on average, deflationary.

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