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Exactly, it’s a percentage. This chart shows instantaneous inflation, which is calculated continuously. When we say annualized, it’s like holding that rate constant for a whole year.

If inflation was the opposite of monetary base, it’d have weird units. Inflation rate is actually unitless, showing how much the money supply grows in a year. This chart shows the instantaneous inflation rate,…

All set.

I see where you got 25% but that was from the last year before the reward halving. That isn’t the same as the ongoing inflation rate.

Wait, how did you get that? Before block 209,999, there were over 10 million BTC. After that block, it added 50 BTC, so that's a tiny increase... doing the math gives an inflation rate of about 28.46%.

Could be because they were hosted on Facebook. I moved them to my own space now.

Just to clarify, these charts are about Bitcoin's monetary inflation, not price inflation. There's a big difference. Austrian economists mean monetary inflation when they talk about inflation, while Keynesians focus on…