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Re:The Ultimate Guide to Inflation by HNfriend234 on Sunday May 09, 2021 @07:48PM (#27101014)
Problem with gold is that it is also inflationary only difference is it is mines that "print" more gold instead of a central bank.

Cryptocurrencies are better since they have geometric decay built into the algorithm to make them deflationary by default.

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Re:The Ultimate Guide to Inflation by DylanBohlender on Sunday May 09, 2021 @10:09PM (#27101962)
Precious metals are also risky long-term in that we don't know how "precious" they truly are in a solar system-wide context.

We can make well-informed guesses, but until there are boots on the ground of the Moon, Mars, and the asteroid belt, we can't know for sure.

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Re:The Ultimate Guide to Inflation by spurgu on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:17AM (#27103238)
Then again you can create new cryptocurrencies out of thin air.
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