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Re:MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies by koboll on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:42AM (#26102726)
If bitcoin is a currency, then the prices of things in bitcoin have fallen over time. What cost 40,000 BTC a decade ago now costs 1 BTC.

But bitcoin is more of an asset than a currency, so speaking of it in terms of inflation / deflation leads to oddities, like this.

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Re:MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies by PragmaticPulp on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:45AM (#26102765)
> But bitcoin is more of an asset than a currency, so speaking of it in terms of inflation / deflation leads to oddities, like this.

Assets inflate and deflate. It’s not an oddity.

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