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by calinet6 4830 days ago
Ah yes, of course, but that currency is undergoing inflation. Bitcoin is rapidly deflating. Huge difference.
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My point was simply that no currency is backed by "stuff" any more. I was responding to your criticism of Bitcoin ("A currency can't make value out of nothing for long").

Of course Bitcoin is deflating - it was designed that way. And of course fiat currencies are inflating - there is no limit to how much can be printed except reason, which is apparently in short supply.