fiat-comparison

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Event October 31, 2008 Bitcoin Whitepaper

Bitcoin's 21 million cap vs adjustable money — Wei Dai's regret, the fiat baseline, and 15 years of cryptocurrency monetary design

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Wei Dai, Adam Back, Vitalik Buterin

Bitcoin chose a hard 21M cap; b-money (1998) proposed elastic supply; fiat runs central-bank discretion. The cypherpunk debate, Wei Dai's 2013 regret, and 15 years of cryptocurrency variants.