Mark Moss argues Bitcoin is harder money than gold because its supply is mathematically fixed at 21 million coins, while gold inflates at roughly 1.5% yearly. Bitcoin's four-year halving cycle cuts new issuance in half, making it more scarce than any commodity central banks can print at will.
Officially now, Bitcoin is the hardest money in the world. So the one thing about Bitcoin is, so every 4 years the new supply of Bitcoin gets cut in half. With the Federal Reserve, or any central bank for that matter, we have no idea what the supply of fiat currency will be at any given time, right? They just change it whenever they want. But what Bitcoin did is Bitcoin came out with a predictable supply issuance. So we know that there will never be more than 21 million, and that will be in 2140, or 116 years from now. Through that process, every 4 years, the supply of new Bitcoin coming out gets cut in half. Gold has about an inflation rate of 1.5%. Bitcoin is now verifiably more scarce than gold. So that's pretty cool.
