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No. Deflation is even worse for economy than inflation is. That's why gold was abandoned. In fact, ancient China had a long history of struggling in awful situa
by HowardMei 13y ago
No. Deflation is even worse for economy than inflation is. That's why gold was abandoned. In fact, ancient China had a long history of struggling in awful situations caused by lacking copper/silver/gold for producing enough coins to feed the booming economy system, while the coins were either smuggled to neighbor countries or remelted by domestic speculators.
I propose a new digital currency be created according to certain eigenvectors[1] and allometry[2] features of trading network flows or simply the internet traffic flows.
The progress of Complex Network[3] theory may tell us more about how to build a solid algorithm for this kind of "evolving coins" to make them decentralized and evolve along with real economic activities.
I've been investigating the theory in part time and I dare say somebody with sufficient knowledge is able to figure out a model eventually.
IMO, bitcoin is the start of inventing a better currency, not the end.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality
[2]http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/allometry-the-study-of-biological-scaling-13228439 http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/allometry-t...
[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_network