Let me ask you something.
If someone broke into your house and stole 7% of everything you own every year, you’d call the police.
But when your government does the exact same thing through inflation, you’re told “it’s necessary for economic growth.”
Both scenarios have the same result: you end up with less purchasing power. The difference is speed and visibility.
The thief is obvious. Inflation is subtle.
In 2021, inflation hit 7%. If you had $100,000 in savings, you lost $7,000 in purchasing power. You still saw $100,000 in your account, so it felt fine. But your money bought 7% less than it did the year before.
That’s theft. It’s just slow enough that most people don’t notice until they’re standing at the grocery store wondering why everything costs twice what it did a few years ago.
Central banks create this inflation deliberately. They print money, which increases the supply, which decreases the value of every dollar you hold. Your savings didn’t shrink. The measuring stick changed.
Imagine if your boss paid you with a ruler that got longer every year. You’re still getting “12 inches” per month, but those inches keep getting shorter. That’s monetary inflation.
Bitcoin fixes this.
The supply is capped at 21 million. Nobody can print more Bitcoin to dilute your holdings. Nobody can change the monetary policy when it becomes politically convenient.
When you hold Bitcoin, you own a fixed percentage of the total supply. If you own 1 Bitcoin, you own 1/21,000,000th of all Bitcoin that will ever exist. That percentage will never change.
Compare that to dollars. If you hold $1 million, you own an unknown and constantly shrinking percentage of all dollars. The Federal Reserve can print trillions more whenever they want, diluting your share of the total supply.
This is why Bitcoin is often called “sound money.” Not because it sounds nice, but because its supply is sound—fixed, predictable, and unchangeable.
Inflation isn’t an unfortunate side effect of modern monetary policy.
It’s a feature. A way to transfer wealth from savers to debtors, from citizens to governments, from the prudent to the reckless.
Bitcoin opts out of that system entirely.