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October 19, 2014, 11:54:27 PM
Last edit: October 20, 2014, 12:08:04 AM by hmmmstrange


With the leveling of the mining difficulty, inflation of the bitcoin money supply has fallen from 12% to 10% per annum. An instant 20% reduction in the new money supply has huge influence on tipping the equilibrium of the price.

Sure, good point. But I'd assume that rising prices will bring mining operations back in as the profitability of mining increases again, and inflation will pick up again. So I'm not sure if this will help a sustainable rally to develop.

Remember that inflation used to be much higher Smiley

Yep, it was much higher but the the coins were being mined by "hobbyists" who didn't sell them. Right now the majority of coins are being mined in china where they have very little incentive of keeping them.