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> when this word was coined, it simply meant increase in money supply

"Inflation was initially used to describe a change in the proportion of currency in circulation relative to the amount of precious metal that constituted a nation’s money" [1]. It was less a synonym for increased money supply than for debasement. From the 1930s, however, "the Keynesian revolution in economics...separated the word inflation from a condition of money and redefined it as a description of prices." Now "the term has become nearly synonymous with 'price increase'."

Economists have no view on money supply per se. They do, however, have a view on price deflation. It is bad. Bitcoin, if treated as a currency, is price deflationary. As such, it inherits the junk that come with price deflation, namely hoarding in favor of real activity.

> We can prove it by looking at the word for inflation in other languages, for instance in Hindi it is 'Mudrasfiti', which literally means 'increase in currency'

This is not a proof...

[1] https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publication...



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