To have hyperinflation with gold you’d either have to have a massive influx of gold (orders of magnitude), or debase the currency by the same amount. It’s hard

To have hyperinflation with gold you’d either have to have a massive influx of gold (orders of magnitude), or debase the currency by the same amount. It’s hard to debase metal currency that quickly, because of all the currency in circulation, and because past a certain point it stops being recognisable as gold.