Inflation is a general rise in the price of goods measured in a particular currency. Inflation indicates a reducing value of currency so that over time, more and more of that currency is required to purchase the same value of goods.
Questions tagged [inflation]
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Are bitcoins really immune to inflation?
I see people everywhere saying that bitcoins are immune to inflation but nobody has explained it adequately to me. I understand why bitcoins would be more or less immune to inflation cause in increased money supply - because there's a fixed money…
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Will forks and alternative block chains cause hyper-inflation of decentralized digital money?
Great effort has been put into Bitcoin's concept of money supply and that there will never be more than 21 million units.
However, it's relatively easy to fork it and create alternate block chains. SolidCoin, IXCoin, IOCoin etc are much less worth,…
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Could there be hyperinflation in Bitcoin?
Currently the creation of new coins is fixed at a certain rate which halves every few years and will at some point in the future drop to zero. As I understand it, this is by consensus, i.e. all the nodes in the network agree on this…
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How much inflation does Bitcoin have, year by year?
What's the M0/MB inflation rate of Bitcoin?
Note: I'm asking about multiple years in order to make this question less likely to go out of date.
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Changing Bitcoin's deflationary nature
One of the most common criticisms made against Bitcoin is related to its deflationary nature. Regardless of the advantages and disadvantages of an inflationary system, would it possible to change the rate of coin generation in order to transform…
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Psychological price
I live in Europe, and more than a decade ago our national currency was replaced by the Euro. For a few years, everyone calculated back the price in Euro to the old currency when buying something, because it was hard to get a 'feeling' of the price.…
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Should fractional reserve banking be prohibited through the bitcoin protocol or otherwise, and how could such a change be implemented?
There's a massive macroeconomic debate between Keynesians, who want central banks to control the money supply, and Austrians who want no central banks doing any such thing--or at least competing currencies which provide an alternative to central…
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Why are fiat Currencies inflationary and Bitcoin deflationary?
Why are all fiat currencies inflationary, and lose value with time? Could governments make them deflationary? What are the advantages of inflationary currency compared with deflationary currency?
Why was Bitcoin chosen to be deflationary (limited…
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Cryptocurrency with less deflationary properties
I wonder what is the benefit of having Bitcoin reduce the coins mined per block over time?
Suppose a slightly less deflationary growth scheme was possible (and keep other properties that make Bitcoin desirable), that might encourage more people to…
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After all possible Bitcoins are created, won't transaction fees eventually consume all Bitcoins?
After all possible Bitcoins are created, won't transaction fees from miners validating transactions eat away from the total and eventually consume all Bitcoins?
Right now, because new Bitcoins are still being created, kind of like planned inflation,…
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Should USD savers be concerned about the rising popularity of cryptocurrencies?
I recently took an interest in cryptocurrencies. Mostly, I'm interested Ethereum and Smart Contracts, but all the news about Bitcoin's rising price has prompted me to study currencies and economics in general.
The next generations are embracing…
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How many coins are needed to ensure stability i.e. neither inflation nor deflation?
The key to currency stability is to have neither too many nor too few of a currency in circulation. So what is the "Goldilocks" area going to be if Bitcoin really catches on and everybody wants to use it?
Could it turn out that demand will outstrip…
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Is the Stellar inflation voting public?
The Stellar network allows users to vote on who will earn its 1% annual STR inflation. I am wondering - is this information publicly available on the Stellar ledger or somewhere else? How can one find out which account voted for who and how big…
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Is Bitcoin deflationary and inflationary at the same time?
I was wondering as Bitcoin is represented in the public and media as a deflationary currency (for more adept media as payment protocol). Is it really deflationary?
Deflation is described on Wikipedia as:
In economics, deflation is a decrease in the…
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Understanding "Bitcoin Inflation vs. Time" chart
I keep seeing this chart on many sites. This discussion page offers a vector version, so I presume it was generated by the author of the post.
Now, while I understand what the graph is meant to show, I struggle to understand how it's generated,…
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