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Bitcoin is by far the best hedge against inflation. All assets tend to zero in Bitcoin terms, long term.

This has been true for the last 12 years and will continue to be true.

This is groupthink propaganda nonsense. Bitcoin can only do 1.5KB/s of transactions and the average transaction costs $26. Any rapid decrease in price will lead to rapid decreases in mining and thus transaction throughput. Does this seem like the future of financial transactions to you?

Transaction throughput doesn't depend on network hashrate. It gets adjusted to keep fixed througput.

In the short term it does. The block difficulty adjusts but not immediately. If hash rate drops rapidly, the time between blocks will lengthen, the time to adjustment will lengthen and the throughput will drop.

Yes. Bitcoin adjust difficulty to hash rate every two weeks. So if you drop hashrate more rapidly than that you can have lower transactuon throughput for up to two weeks. One on average.

> All assets tend to zero in Bitcoin terms, long term.

Good luck with _that!_

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