Quote from: fiulpro on July 28, 2019, 03:36:31 AM

Quote from: thirdprize on July 11, 2019, 04:41:51 PM

Is there anything to stop the core devs saying we want unlimited bitcoin and changing the code to allow it. I mean, 21 million isn't much.

There isn't any thing the developers can't do.
At the end of the day it is just a piece of software and at the same time it isn't.
I do think that , the developers won't do that , since they most likely will kill the very idea if bitcoins themselves.
It was created as such , when it is stagnant then people won't be able to buy new bitcoins denying the inflation , the price will sky rocket , for people who are holding will actually be Happy.
I think this whole period bitcoins is in , is a growth one right now , when the supply stops it might be able to just achieve a price that is more or less stable and not even low.
I hope they don't .

Nope, the developers can't just do that because it won't reach user consensus. Sure technically they can push it, doesn't mean the node operators and miners will accept it. It will immediately cause a fork and most people would simply refuse to use it. This is too fundamental a change for it to ever pass, and the more time that passes the more it is engraved that bitcoin is deflationary. The only people still proposing this are those who don't know or care about the Austrian school of economy, they are yet to understand the beauty of deflationary economies.

OP literately needs to read Mises and the problem solves itself, nobody should propose this. If you still want it, go to one of the inflationary altcoins.

Bitcoin is deflationary and the world will learn and move into Austrian economics, putting an end to the endless bubble/crashes cycles once and for all.