If all newly mined coins were going straight to market, those calc figures would be spot on

http://www.flexcoin.com/?page_id=148

that's been there for months...  didn't you ever read it?  I find it fascinating and comical how many people ask the same question but never read it...

not to this extent.   We're printing a huge amount of bitcoins, more than Zimbabwe at current rates.

True: afaik Zimbabwe abandoned its currency and doesn't print any more But when it had thousands of %% of inflation, its emission was obviously much much much higher than emission of bitcoins )

What you are saying is that if amount of bitcoin grows, but amount of goods and services traded for bitcoins doesn't grow, then bitcoins should decrease its value.

This is obviously true and it doesn't depend on bitcion's current price (you can remove it from equation and just show percentage of inflation). To my mind it is not that high for such a risky business, and it will decrease with time

Moreover, something is being added to the economy every day (people buy bitcoins, goods and services traded for bitcoins, people loose their wallets and many of them expect that in the long term bitcoin economy will grow)... So there are some deflationary factors as well which are hard to estimate. But if you are interested in crashing bitcoin, then focus on inflation, it is understandable

Thanks for making the calculator, but it rests on the assumption that every mined coin is sold at market price. As long as people realize that assumption is implicit in that calculation, then it's a valuable observational tool.

It needs to be understood, though, that if miners hold all the coins they mine, then exactly $0 new dollars are needed to keep the price flat, (ceteris paribus).

The money doesn't have to come directly from new investment now. If the volume of transactions processed increases the value of bitcoin as a product increases, which can be used to settle the deficit in future. The is not happening though

huh?  Where the hell did you get that from?   it's based on transaction fees from income it generates.   Like everything you stated it's the exact opposite.

http://www.flexcoin.com/?page_id=148

Read that than come back..  seriously I am really tired of posting it over and over again...  people need to read how it's formulated.  Better yet I don't think you would understand it...  I'll post it here:


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Fees:
Flexcoin to Flexcoin = FREE
Bitcoin to Flexcoin = FREE
Flexcoin to Bitcoin = .01 BTC or one half of one percent (whichever is greater)

- NOTE: the bitcoin miner fees will be distributed from the fees we collect on outbound transfers, not added on.  The fee listed above is the only fee you will pay for an outbound transfer.

70% of the fees collected are disbursed to the account holders as discount payments on any fees already paid or any potential future fees, based on the following formula…

(your account balance total balance of all flexcoin accounts) * ((all fees collected – miner fees) * 0.7)

It is important to note, as you can see in the formula listed above, MINER FEES WILL BE PAID ON ALL EXTERNAL TRANSFERS. Flexcoin will add appropriate bitcoin transaction fees whenever coins are transferred to an external bitcoin address.  Flexcoin-to-Flexcoin transfers are 100% FREE, and instantaneous.

What This Means: an individual can transfer bitcoins into Flexcoin (from an external bitcoin address client), and then send and receive coins for free (via Flexcoin-to-Flexcoin transfers). This person would also receive a discount payment, even if they don’t make an outbound transfer (netting them a discount against any future fees for outbound transfers).

This makes a Flexcoin account the world’s perfect bitcoin solution.

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In simple english,  when someone transfers out to a BTC address 1/2 of 1% is fees.   70% of that goes back to the account holders.  

Lets say we will have 10 million Btc in a year. Each worth $6. Thats $60 million.
Now its sounds much but It only requires 200.000 to believe in Btc and each put in $300 thats it.

Now the price sounds very easy to hold and achieve.
Even if there are only 100.000 guys who believe in Btc, some of them will buy much more than $300 worth of coins.

And a couple of month ago there were around 60.000 who had accounts at Mtgox. Now since then there are atleast two chinese, a canadian, a british Bitcoin exchange.

So a price of $6 should be easy to hold if the markets thinks its worth it, considering how revolutionary Bitcoins are.