Well, I have a few questions for you then. Who's the debtor and who's the creditor? Fiat is claim of the banks (central or commercial) and they withdraw it from circulation with every loan repayment. Bitcoin is claim on who, and who withdraws it from circulation?
Well you seem to have finally touched upon the crux of your debate: Where do the coins come from and who controls it?
The coins come the network - not a central authority. That means that (in the case of
BTC) there is no central authority.
As for Fiat,
I refer you to this article Specifically this bit:
But an unstated, practical result of the Fed's bond purchases is that it creates money to finance the gigantic debt run up by Congress. The very idea of it tends to explode the heads of those who say dollars should come from work, savings and investment instead of thin air. In the age of a nearly $25 trillion national debt, such “sound money” concepts seem outdated – relics of a bygone era in which the value of a dollar once was based on a fixed amount of gold.
“What we’re working with now is fake money, a fake measuring rod,” longtime Federal Reserve critic and former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul told USA TODAY. “It is unbelievable.”
In this case, the federal government's bank isn’t just creating massive amounts of dollars from scratch. The government also is, in effect, using those newly created dollars to pay down its own debt, this time at an unprecedented scale because of the economy's massive shutdown triggered by the pandemic.
This might sound like a financial fantasy: You mean we can pay our credit card bills by simply pressing a button?
Yes, the government can, unlike people and businesses, though it’s a little more complicated than that. The larger question is whether it's sound and sustainable.
With just a few keystrokes the Gov says, "We now have xxx more money and want you (banks) to purchase bonds against it". That is no different than an autonomous network saying "here are more coins based on the work you performed". Where there IS a difference is that the
BTCnetwork will never produce more than 21 million
BTC which of course means that whatever value people assign to
BTC can never be diluted by the random production of more
BTC out of thin air.