Anyone who has a miner can generate bitcoin. Only the FED can create new USD.
Edit to further elucidate: It isn't exactly the loan that creates money, but what happens with the money after the loan. It will almost certainly land in a bank account somewhere, adding to that bank's reserves, which allows them to lend 90% of the loan's value again. (assuming a 10% capital reserve requirement)
Another shot at it with a thought experiment. Everybody goes to the bank and borrows 10k every month. The bank never asks them back for the first five years. Result? Inflation, possibly hyperinflation. Same as if they would be printing money (and they'll won't get anything back when the five years are past.)
It's perhaps better put like this:
You store a dollar in the bank. The bank makes a loan to a business to buy cars. The car company stores that dollar in another bank. The bank makes a loan with that dollar to a farmer to buy sheep from another farmer. That farmer who sold the sheep puts that dollar in the bank.
That one dollar was used in three different transactions, thus creating more US Dollars than were actually printed.
And on and on it goes.
Edited to add:
That's why runs on banks are so dangerous, because the bank never has the full amount of money in it's safe. It's using that money to make loans.
In BTC I don't know who's creating it, what they believe about it and I have no way to affect their creation of it. Seems like the democratic governing system is more fair and transparent so where did I go wrong?
It would matter more than my (non-existent) vote in bitcoin would.
>It doesn't matter who is creating it as long as the supply is stable and predictable.
So to be clear, your problem isn't that the fed is centralized and btc is decentralized it's that btc is regular and the fed can be irregular?
You don't have to use it though.
> So to be clear, your problem isn't that the fed is centralized and btc is decentralized it's that btc is regular and the fed can be irregular?
Both aspects are problematic. It's not only the FED that is centralized, the banking system itself is. Bitcoin is Peer-to-peer without trusted third parties.
What I care about as a consumer is being able to predict the value of my currency at future times. Bitcoin doesn't allow me to do this at all.
No, you can trust them to tell you how much they're creating. Important distinction.
> I can even vote for people whose dollar creation opinions line up with mine.
The people who run the FED aren't elected, so no, you can't.
> In BTC I don't know who's creating it, what they believe about it and I have no way to affect their creation of it.
It doesn't matter, the issuance is controlled by the protocol and you can know how much Bitcoin will be created on 2105/06/25 by making a few simple calculations.
So if you don't agree with it you can bail out right now and never participate in it, no one forces you to.
A on-chain bitcoin transaction allows an arbitrary number of off-chain transactions.
The existence of war does not absolve you. If your standard of morality is "everything that's better than war is okay", you have approximately no morality.