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Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by matheusmoreira on Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:45PM (#30226482)
> Do you control the inflation rate? Do you control how much currency is being minted?

Exchanges are essentially banks. They offer bitcoin loans, essentially creating new coins out of nowhere. Fixed money supply is utterly powerless before the inflationary power of debt.

Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by 8note on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:44AM (#30230070)
Afaict this requires transactions to happen off chain?

If you let people manage your coins in their wallet, they can pretend there's more of them, but they can't actually trade that many