I'd argue that it does inflate the supply. First the "bitco…

steffenkd ·

I'd argue that it does inflate the supply.
First the "bitcoin" division is kinda arbitrary and in my opinion is confusing.
Satoshi subdivision makes more sense.
Same way you have gram (g) or bytes (b) and then can do kilo, mega, giga and so on. Or in opposite direction in case of gram, where you can have mili, nano, pico and so on.
You have one standardized measurement which you can multiply or divide by the power of 10, 100 or 1000 several times.


Second:
On BTC you can add a decimal without practically inflating the supply.
Because you already would need about 1150 years for every satoshi being used at least once with those 5 tx/s.
So dividing them even further wouldn't make much sense.
On BSV this makes no sense since tokens have utility and therefore value.
For example: if you are a musician and you give a concert and want to issue 1000 tickets you buy 1000 satoshis (for simplification no fees or anything alike included) for a certain amount of money.
Now imagine a decimal is getting added.
Now the musician has 10000 tokens instead of 1000 and has enough satoshis for his next 9 concerts.
So he doesn't have to buy additional satoshis for the next 9 concerts.
BSV has utility, is a commodity and therefore adding a decimal is equivalent to inflating the supply.
On BTC it would be like a forwarded stock split and adding a decimal would be kinda fine, because it is only used for hodling - it is like a stock.