I took this to mean that bitcoin's issuance rate is more predictable than the rate that physical gold is discovered and mined at. There are unknown unmined gol

I took this to mean that bitcoin's issuance rate is more predictable than the rate that physical gold is discovered and mined at. There are unknown unmined gold deposits out there, both on-planet and off-planet. There are no unknown unmined bitcoin deposits. Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments