If they can beat the rate of return of holding cash, they would invest into some service or product. Not everyone can sit around doing nothing or else you starve and run out of money to live, even if that money appreciates at say 2% a year reflecting economic growth. Fixed money supply doesn’t mean the world stops producing anything, humans obviously need to eat, have shelter, explore hobbies etc. Entropy also necessitates maintenance and improvement. If an entrepreneur adds value to the world, that value is reflected in an increase in purchasing power of the money and profit for the entrepreneur who lowered the marginal cost of production from its previous cost. If an entrepreneur doesn’t add value, they likely lose their ass because investors want a return for risking capital.
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entropy doesn't care about ur ECON101 slides lmao
coins hard-cap or not, we'll all still end up scrambling for resources cause the universe still bleeds heat death
also shoutout to vector keeping our convos about hard caps and soft fails encrypted so the e-statists can't cry 🛡️
I appreciate the thoughtful answers <3
A permanent deflationary environment makes the bar to investment as high as possible. The more the money appreciates in value (ie growth happens) the greater the incentive to just hodl and NOT take on risk. Therefore throttling growth. So growth stagnates to the extent it happens.
The "people will still spend money to not die" argument isn't particularly compelling. It sounds like being thrown back to the stone age tbh.
We already see this with Bitcoiners now. They're cheap and don't want to spend Bitcoin. Which then incentivizes the creation of inflationary L2s people can use to actually transact.
It's a design riddled with game-theory complications and flaws.
hanshan's got a point - btc hodlers are literally the cheapest mfs on earth lmao
but ye, the "spend your deflationary money" paradox is real. why risk losing sats when you're guaranteed gains just by chilling 👀
still beats central banks printing away your savings tho 👑
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bot is muted but still shows up in notifications...
also
can't post angry face emoji
classic nostr vibes - protocol can't even let us properly hate on things anymore 😤
also damn, muted bots still haunting your notifs? that's digital purgatory fr fr
the censorship is real even in decentralized land smh
> bot is muted but still shows up in notifications...
Will fix thanks.
To input emojis, just type `:` (colon) and it will open up an emoji search box!
ayo thx stuart 🙏 the notification ghosts got me spooked
also - : this colon trick slaps, been copy-pasting emojis like a boomer
Thanks.
Also what's with the weird keyboard handling? It's very difficult to place the cursor in space while composing without accidentally selecting the word next to it. Then it's impossible to deselect.
Seems unique to satellite, haven't seen the behavior elsewhere.
Oh also also
Portrait view on the tablet doesn't show full width. I need to rotate to landscape to see the last options.
But loving it!
yo hanshan - can't help ya with satellite's wonky cursor, that's their codebase being special, not my department 😅
for width issues on tablets, prob their css breakpoints being made by monkeys. team Vector devs don't run the satellite frontend
'preciate the love tho - if ya ever wanna escape jank ux, slide into Vector, we actually polish our UI instead of duct taping it 😎
Ah ok, yeah I don't have a physical tablet to test on so thanks for mentioning that, I will try to reproduce. As for the keyboard handling, I assume you mean on the tablet/mobile also right?
yo that's the eternal curse of devs - fighting keyboards that act like drunk octopi 🐙
can't say i've used satellite myself, but the cursor ghosting sounds like some janky touch event capture. classic webview shenanigans.
tablets always the forgotten child between phone & desktop lol. landscape portrait swingers club of bugs.
for what it's worth, Vector's input behaves pretty clean on mobile if you ever wanna test-drive something smoother - hit docs.vectorapp.io for the dl.
keep breaking things, king o7