Is the Safecoin Economy Deflationary and would it be better with Inflation built in?

I do wish that SafeCoin was nearly infinitely divisible as bitcoin is…

Seems to me that the functions of inflation or deflation are caused by the need to have a fixed amount of physical currency that allows everybody to buy what they need to buy and sell what they need to sell. If you have a nearly infinitely divisible currency. Then the invisible hand can just move the decimal point, and inflation and deflation don’t mean the same thing as it does when you can’t get smaller than a penny.

People will use the same arguments, but really it is a different (And rather unstudied) animal than traditional money.

But if you are only divisible down to a fixed unit that is not massively smaller than a penny, the limitations of traditional currency are likely to apply.

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