Ethereum The New Hard Money?
A debate arose about the possibility of Ethereum becoming hard money and ended up highlighting more downsides to the digital asset than anything else. The founder of a Bitcoin investments managing platform, Charles Edwards, shared a chart that showed the circulating supply activity of Ethereum and Bitcoin and argued that “Ethereum has entered the hard money game. For the past 3 months, Ethereum’s inflation rate has been lower than Bitcoin.” “Hard money is not only about low inflation of supply, it is also about immutability of inflation – oil is not suddely....
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