isn't a dollar or euro merely a deflationary currency that follows the velocity of money principle albeit controlled by the government and when the velocity is slow they print more?
Not exactly. First of all the currencies aren't deflationary, they're slightly inflationary, meaning they lose value over time. Deflationary currencies are considered very bad if a government holds much debt at all. Inflationary currencies incentivize spending over holding.
Second of all they don't just look at velocity of money, they also look at the economy's strength, demand for money and lending, consumer prices indicies, and other things that are tied to external metrics and thus need a centralized authority to use. For a cryptocurrency, we can't do this, we have to rely on some algorithm. Tying creation rate to velocity of money seems like a decent approximation to me, but I could be dead wrong.
We do not support automatic autoscale at this point, but it is definitely a feature we will be considering in the future. For now, you can scale on-demand in the portal or using Azure CLI.
it cannot do autoscale up and down now. But i think you can query for usage metrics and trigger a scale up/down with azure cli/powershell. This is a good feature we should have later in the public preview
To my knowledge, just stopping, as you've done, is the most important thing, and then continue eating healthy, exercising and so on, but you've already done the hardest part. The important thing now is that you stick with it
