Isn't a fork some sort of "inflation" as well?
Technically no. Imagine you want to purchase something from a vendor that accepts bitcoin payments. You have no way of paying them using bsv simply because bsv is not bitcoin,
ergo creating the copy did not cause inflation. They are just cheap useless ripoffs.
Technically, it's not affecting Bitcoin because it's a different coin.
So indeed, the bold part is important, leading us to:
That's why a Shitfork can't be scarce in my opinion. It's just a copy from the original. Only the Original can be scarce.
I don't seem to see the logic. In this case, being a copy or original doesn't have anything to do with scarcity. A copy could be as scarce as the original as the case of BCH and BSV shows. They all have 21 million in total supply. Please note that I'm just referring to the supply here, not their respective demand.
You are right that such fork coins are from a numeric perspective scarce, only 21M BCH, only 21M BSV, so technically scarce.
But all of them pretend to be BTC and there are several ones pretending that. It's up to the people to decide which one is real Bitcoin and people have decided to go for BTC - currently all Bitcoin Shitforks are below 1% of Bitcoin's market cap.
= The Shitfork "inflation", as forks are done from time to time, doesn't affect Bitcoin.
But this so because these coins we call copies aren't really literal copies. They're not literally counterfeit. They're different coins, as you've pointed out, hence BCH and BSV and not anymore BTC.
Yes, BCH and BSV are different coins but Faketoshi launched it as forged copy.
So, strictly speaking, they aren't inflation. We could have a million forks of BTC which are as scarce as BTC but they're not BTC anymore.
The problem is when they wrongly pretend to be BTC.
But luckily, people will reject such Fork-Altcoins as cheap Shitcoins.
Dudes and dudettes.
Not one word about Pow vs pos.
shameful.
all pos = piece of shit.
I'm not a friend of PoS as well and I agree that PoS has many flaws.
But we haven't discussed PoS here so far because my topic is just about marketcap and inflation (where Polkadot, a PoS coins, is also showing weakness).
Discussing dangers of PoS might be interesting, too.
819k USD by 2052 seems easy-peasy.
Well, if 819k USD will only buy you a hand sanitizer in 2052 and 1 BTC will be 819k USD, too, then it would be an issue.
