This has really been my original question (except I didn’t know bitcoin was integer based and not decimal based).
And talking about units was actually tricky
As far as I can see now, if bitcoin was decimal based and infinitely divisible, that alone would not make it inflationary instead of deflationary.
Is ^ true?
This is what I’ve been arguing with my friends about.
I think in my mind it boils down to this concept.
If there can be a way to make more representative units of value there is an inflation regardless of how you slice it, due to how integers work in the abstract sense. Your just adding more units to chase the same number of goods respectively.
This is why i believe value in and of itself its going to HAVE TO reprice itself in the future at some date so that the units we have now actually work in practice.
Perhaps this is just a difference between integer based systems and decimal based systems. In an integer system there’s no way to make it divisible without adding more integers. In a decimal based system, you can go as small as you want but it’s all the same amount of units.
One of my friends was arguing that if you can go to infinitely small amounts that’s a type of inflation and I don’t understand how he thinks that (under a decimal based system)
