"Zero cost"... Aside from the cost of nearly every major hodler of bitcoin dumping them instantaneously if the 21 mil cap is put in serious jeopardy.
I don't think however that the introduction of extra inflation into bitcoin -- say, 1% per year, beyond the block rewards -- would necessarily induce all holders to dump, and the price to crash.
We will see what happens after the block reward drops below <1% of the total supply. But that is 20 years from now
(wiki), a bit of a non-issue at the moment:
1260000 7 0.78125000 20671875.00000000 164062.50000000 20835937.50000000 0.79365079% 99.21875011%
That is not "cost". Even if bitcoins lose all their value, no resources or concrete assets will be destroyed. The world will not become any poorer. Only, a few hundred thousand people the current bitcoin holders
True.
I still believe that bitcoin's price will go to zero in a few years
Zero what exactly? Dollars? Nah, there will always be a few rebels like yourself and me that put a certain value to Bitcoin. Not sure how you can keep stubbornly repeating this like a mantra, bitcoin != Bitcoin. Currently those rebels value a bitcoin at $240 a piece, quite awesome when you think about it.