• quo@feddit.uk
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    9 months ago

    The other poster seems to be talking about using smaller divisions in BTC. Like trading half instead of one for a pizza, and then trading a tenth instead of half, and so on. Eventually using satoshis.

    The price of an object in BTC gets smaller and smaller in BTC pricing.

    That does happen, but they don’t understand the difference between that and the Fed diluting a dollar over time.

    If I have 1 BTC when it buys one pizza, and then still have it when it buys 100 pizzas, my savings have grown.

    If it takes $1 to buy a pizza one day, and years later takes $10 to buy a pizza, my USD savings have shrunk even if they are nominally the same.

    that’s why people say to invest in BTC because the same exact holdings grow, rather than shrink like USD. Going by the votes on here, many people don’t understand that the rarity of a currency is half the equation in its value.

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      9 months ago

      Some might not understand that, but I think OP was talking about the 21 million limit not being a limit as I described. You said its limited, he said its infinitely divisible. The only way its infinite is if its hard forked as I described, otherwise there’s a hard limit of no division smaller than 1 Satoshi.

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        9 months ago

        People already have, long before it was even a popular program.

        There’s marketplaces where you can buy and sell a lot of different things with BTC