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> I don't think Bitcoin is made at will out of thin air like flat currency routinely is.

This is a gross oversimplification of how the vast majority of central banks(ie: the ones that matter) handle their fiat currency. In theory, yes, they could just print money, in practice, they don't "just print money".

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I kind of assumed that is enough to get the point across, but my point was that a flat currency relies too much on the moral code of a few human actors, whereas in Bitcoin, the contract agreed upon by the majority of the network is not enforced by humans, but by a cryptographic protocol.

A well designed fiat currency system would not rely on the moral code of humans, but rather on having created an incentive structure such that the actors in power are pushed towards doing the correct thing. We have not fully accomplished this, but it is a state that we can strive towards. It is important to note that fiat currency is not based on the idea that we can reliably find and promote saints to run it (at least in theory).

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