Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ask the Zimbabweans about the insignificance of 14 zeros in your currency. History is littered with far more examples of currency revaluation than long-term stable measures of wealth (in fact precious metals are, possibly, the only example).
Zimbabwe had hyper-inflation, which made currency worthless as soon as it was printed. Bitcoins have the opposite "problem".
So in Zimbabwe, receiving $1,000,000 in the morning was a losing proposition because by nightfall you might sell the same good for $1,000,000,000.
With hyper-deflation, spending $1,000,000 in the morning would be a losing proposition because by nightfall you might buy the same good for $1,000.
Both suffer severe problems, economically, but who loses and who wins changes. The matrix is something like this:
Inflation| Buyer | Seller |
---------+-------+--------+
Early | Win | Lose |
---------+-------+--------+
Later | Lose | Win |
---------+-------+--------+
Deflation| Buyer | Seller |
---------+-------+--------+
Early | Lose | Win |
---------+-------+--------+
Later | Win | Lose |
---------+-------+--------+