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 Rothbard would disagree with you and I would agree with him. He didn’t live to see Bitcoin but he said the perfect money would ideally be static in supply.

We don’t need the supply of BTC to remain stable.

And we most definitely don’t need to separate currency from store of value.

We need Bitcoin to appreciate and move beyond 8 decimals. Don’t even need to change the protocol, this can be handled in layers (which I know you don’t agree are Bitcoin but you’re going to be overruled by consensus).

Imagine a world with 10,000 ecash fedimints (7/9) backing at the Sat level. 1 Sat divided to 1.00000000 off chain.

That’s where this goes with mass adoption.

Bitcoin won’t scale to humanity without trust. But that trust doesn’t have to be JPow saying he’s immune to external authority, it could very well be mint custodians putting their lives on the line not to rehypothecate but fractionalising beyond the day level.

Gotta think big for where we’re going!