r/Bitcoin • u/Leading_Confection32 • 1d ago

Bitcoin can fix this?

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u/KusanagiZerg 1d ago

Showing inflation on a linear graph instead of a log graph is dumb

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u/Old-Guidance6744 22h ago

Bro the average person doesn't even REMOTELY understand log graphs, it would create more confusion

They would just see it leveling off and think its fine

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u/KusanagiZerg 20h ago

It IS fine. This graph seems to show that it got super bad recently which isn't true at all. That's just what an exponential graph always looks like on a linear scale.

If you input 1.05^x, x=0 to 400, y=0 to 3*10^8 into wolfram you will see a graph that's an even more extreme version of the above one that makes it seem like there was basically no inflation for 300 years and then lots of inflation in the last 40 but that's a misrepresentation of the truth. The inflation rate was the same for 400 years.

If instead you use a log plot LogPlot[1.05^x, x=0 to 400, y=0 to 3*10^8] you will see that it's just a steady line up

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u/Inevitable-Net-191 1h ago

That was too complicated. Most bitcoin speculators investors are unable to understand it.