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by JumpCrisscross 2913 days ago
> This is an oft-repeated falsehood

Inflation is a measure between real goods and services on one hand and a single unit of a currency on the other. It is not a measure of money supply. (For that we say “money supply”.)

Money supply increases tend to be inflationary. But that’s not a hard and fast rule. Bitcoin’s money supply is increasing, but on average it’s been deflating.