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[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Stocks can be replaced by other stocks and eroded by taxes and regulation, new gold can be mined as new reserves are found and technology develops, but what can create new Bitcoin except one specific asic?

As far as why people would want a currency like Bitcoin with a fixed supply, Project 2025 which Trump is clearly following, talks about mandating the Fed to grow the money supply at a fixed 3% a year; which is a Milton Friedman conservative idea.

This supposedly stops the wild speculation into assets like housing and the cantillon effect, which then requires large bailouts, which causes moral hazard. As it also hurts the poor and the young, who are gatekept when trying to actually utilize the housing for procreation instead of capital preservation, causing fertility rates to fall as price to incomes continue to rise.

Solana and the other shitcoins should probably not be part of this though. That's where it is clearly a gift to his donors, who made his Trump grift coin.