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Heard it here first. Fiat money caused the holocaust.

Hyperinflation is not the result of monetary policy. Hyperinflation is the result of near total collapse of systems. BTC is absolutely not immune to hyperinflation. That's just what happens when the price of some currency tanks rapidly as people lose all trust in its stability. The mining cap does not prevent the collapse of BTC as a currency or the collapse of states that use it. Not even a little.

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I don't how stable your systems are. If too much print currency is printed, prices will rise. And if the printing is great enough and sustained long enough, hyperinflation will result.

Does a stable supply of a currency, coupled with collapsed systems, create hyperinflation?

Does a currency's value only drop up where systems collapse and not suffer hyperinflation elsewhere where systems are working?

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