Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail

Re:Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail by corv on Thursday September 27, 2018 @08:46PM (#18090145)

Ergo inflation tends to cause malinvestment as savers want to protect as much value as possible, whereas deflation is more likely to incentivize productive investments.

After all if deflationary currency is worth more tomorrow, one wants to make sure an investment in the future is sustainable.

Notably one is especially interested to invest in a deflationary economy because the gains are multiplicative.

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Re:Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail by badge on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:31AM (#18091094)

Bitcoin has a higher inflation rate than USD.

  Bitcoin inflation rate per annum: 3.87% 
  USD Current inflation rate for the United States is 2.7%.

Early in Bitcoin history, by design Bitcoin went though a period of hyperinflation where Satoshi and a few users acquired most of the coins in circulation.

Aprox 4.11% of Bitcoin users (addresses) control 96.53% of all bitcoins in circulation.

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Re:Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail by erfgh on Friday September 28, 2018 @05:29AM (#18092056)

Inflation is not calculated the way you think it is calculated.

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Re:Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail by badge on Saturday September 29, 2018 @05:16AM (#18099450)

Point being the Bitcoin supply is increasing at a rate higher than fiat.

What is that called? It's not deflation.

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