Reading "The Deficit Myth" by Stephanie Kelton this week. V…

Twetch ·

Reading "The Deficit Myth" by Stephanie Kelton this week. Very accessible read (~3rd grade lvl?) on MMT. Paints a good pic of where fiat-issuers are going.

Question: In BSV-world, if CSW is the "issuer" of bitcoin... what prevents him from issuing more?

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Twetch ·

Meaning, in the analogy/rhetoric on set-in-stone... the "protocol" -- what exactly is being ref'd. If the stone is the words of Satoshi himself... and the 21M supply isn't in the white paper but in his postings -- and that's considered a verbal contract...

Twetch ·

"Total circulation will be 21,000,000 coins."

Any further detailed definition of circulation?

Sorry for the rather basic questions, just re-addressing fundamentals.

Overall, I presume the economic incentives of maintaining "the protocol" will push...

Twetch ·

Not sure what you asking.

MMT is a bit of a confused theory imo and I'm not sure you can apply it to bitcoin

Twetch ·

bitcoin is hard austrian concept. elastic supply on demand cant work. That's why gold was dropped.

Twetch ·

Copy that. I'm familiar w/ MMT - just was reading her book as she's the current face of it. Just listening to CSW emphasize his roll as the "issuer" made me think of parallels -- as MMT rests on the idea that Gov'ts can print as they "issue" the currency.

Twetch ·

This plus Gilder's ruminations -- just had me asking myself:
How stoney is that protocol actually?
How is that 21M cap actually enforced?

Again, I think the answer is that if an attempt were made to violate the cap - the miners / processors would reject.

Twetch ·

users will dump too

I get Gilders point on the thing that money is a measuring stick not something valuable in itself

if bitcoin gets to that point than it gets wierd for me