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 Another thread about this? Unlimited supply. Which is the opposite of the whole point of money, scarcity, fixed supply. I would add that, the brilliance of bitcoin is that it achieved the optimum between all tradeoffs of the critical variables, to become immutable, incorruptible money. That’s why there will never be a second best. 
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 There is no second best, and when the free market needs an ungovernable and untraceable digital cash, there is only one choice:  

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