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Re:Good riddance, PayPal by Karunamon on Thursday September 06, 2012 @11:59AM (#4484709)
state-sponsored inflation

..which is just replaced with built-in inflation. At least the rate is predictable and static.

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Re:Good riddance, PayPal by mrb on Thursday September 06, 2012 @02:20PM (#4485456)
No. Bitcoin is deflationary, not inflationary. (The value of a coin increases much faster than the coin supply. About half of the 21M coins have already been generated.)
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Re:Good riddance, PayPal by Karunamon on Thursday September 06, 2012 @02:50PM (#4485589)
Err, deflation, right. Not sure why I conflated the two there.
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