<p>I keep hearing that Bitcoin is immune to inflation because You can't make more bit coins than some fixed constant of bitcoins through a process of mining.  However, assuming enough people take it seriously, doesn't bitcoin have the same inflationary problems as fractional reserve banking?  As soon as you put it in a bank because people hate storing their bitcoins in a "vaults" like gold, you introduce the same old fractional reserve banking system that the US federal reserve watches over...  and because its an international currency that's not regulated, who sets the fractional reserve rate for bitcoin?  isn't that a bubble waiting to happen?  What happens if there's a run on a bitcoin bank?</p>

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2017-12-21T22:15:30.090Z
Could you explain further why someone would store a Bitcoin in a bank and why would that matter? How would the Bitcoin's inflate because of that situation?
Cedric Martens
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2017-12-21T22:32:07.220Z
I was just talking hypothetically if bitcoin is used broadly as a replace for normal money... then people start placing them in  banks for convience, and banks start loaning money in bitcoins...I guess currently bitcoin requires you to exchange back to normal money to use it?  I couldn’t for instance get a loan denominated in bitcoins?
Bill Moore
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2017-12-21T22:36:51.003Z
Not that I would ever want to do that.. I would rather have a loan that devalues over time so that I can pay it off faster ...just extrapolating the bit coin hype about taking over as money...
Bill Moore
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2017-12-21T22:54:09.187Z
Maybe a person would be willing to borrow bitcoin for short term inferring less risk from value changes... then it all goes back to fractional reserve banking again and inflation of money derived for bitcoin?
Bill Moore
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Doesn't bitcoin have the same inflationary problems as fractional reserve banking?
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# Doesn't bitcoin have the same inflationary problems as fractional reserve banking?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-12-21)

I keep hearing that Bitcoin is immune to inflation because You can't make more bit coins than some fixed constant of bitcoins through a process of mining. However, assuming enough people take it seriously, doesn't bitcoin have the same inflationary problems as fractional reserve banking? As soon as you put it in a bank because people hate storing their bitcoins in a "vaults" like gold, you introduce the same old fractional reserve banking system that the US federal reserve watches over... and because its an international currency that's not regulated, who sets the fractional reserve rate for bitcoin? isn't that a bubble waiting to happen? What happens if there's a run on a bitcoin bank?

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> **username_1**: Could you explain further why someone would store a Bitcoin in a bank and why would that matter? How would the Bitcoin's inflate because of that situation?  
> **username_0**: I was just talking hypothetically if bitcoin is used broadly as a replace for normal money... then people start placing them in  banks for convience, and banks start loaning money in bitcoins...I guess currently bitcoin requires you to exchange back to normal money to use it?  I couldn’t for instance get a loan denominated in bitcoins?  
> **username_0**: Not that I would ever want to do that.. I would rather have a loan that devalues over time so that I can pay it off faster ...just extrapolating the bit coin hype about taking over as money...  
> **username_0**: Maybe a person would be willing to borrow bitcoin for short term inferring less risk from value changes... then it all goes back to fractional reserve banking again and inflation of money derived for bitcoin?  

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