Yes hopefully you understand now. Gold has an infinite supply, it's inflation is based on price. As the price of gold increases it's more cost effective to mine it, increasing inflation.
Bitcoin is absolutely scarce. It has a fixed supply of 21 million, which is issued over the first 120 or so years. This fixed supply does not suffer from inflation because it is impossible to increase the supply of bitcoin.
Hopefully this is clear to you now.
You’re still wrong. Read the white paper.
I read the white paper a long time ago. It's incredibly incomplete and also misleading in many ways. It was just a brief introduction to Bitcoin and it left out many important details about the protocol.
The difference between inflation and issuance was not clearly understood at that time. Only later when bitcoin started to be explained to normies who are not software engineers, such as yourself, did people who were trying to help others understand begin to bifurcate the words and use them more accurately to facilitate learning and communication.
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