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by clintonwoo 1430 days ago
Technically Bitcoin isn't anti inflationary in the sense of it being correlated with US inflation. It's only anti inflationary in the sense of it being subject to a limited supply. So anybody believing Bitcoin is correlated with their countries inflation is sorely mistaken.

Gold on the other hand is a commodity with a real market use as a material, so you would expect it's price to go up when the value of currency goes down. But it's also subject to many market forces so it's price is not as simple as an inflation number. Any commodity material or product could be seen this way