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2025-02-15 11:43:44 UTC

The 4str0n4ut ⚡ on Nostr: I see your point 🙂. But unlike fiat, miners are decentralized, and anyone can run ...

I see your point 🙂. But unlike fiat, miners are decentralized, and anyone can run a #Bitcoin node and compete for the reward, without needing permission from any government or central authority.

Doesn’t that fundamentally change the dynamic?
Not 100% correct, the cantillion effect was discovered on a gold standard.

Even Bitcoin has a cantillion effect, because the miners do get the new money first. Of course over the long run with the halvings the impact gets smaller and smaller until 2140.