robocoin, you sound a lot like DoomDumas:
Inflation ? actual CPI calculated of inflation in terms of the 1980's CPI calculation ? (it so different !!!)
Sure, the CPI is unusable as a baseline inflation measure for the USD. Even M1, M2, etc. are obviously off.
Bitcoin mining is the opposite of fiat inflation. Looking at a "market cap" can give a first-order approximation of the total amount of fiat currency that has been converted to Bitcoin. If my theory holds, the market cap isn't the cause of any trading, it's an effect, but it does tend to prove that bitcoin mining increases the value of each bitcoin that wouldn't happen if mining were the same as fiat inflation.