20 sats \ 1 reply \ @bigrouter 22 Jul 2022 freebie \ parent \ on: I'm Simon, creator of Mempool.Space. AMA. bitcoin
I understand the "21 million forever" concept but that's not my question or the original question (I think)
What do you specifically think about the idea of a fixed reward that Peter Todd recently opted for discussion on the bitcoin-dev mailing list?
In short: organically coins/sats are lost and therefore a small inflationary reward for miners might not absolutely impact the 21 million cap.
It's an interesting argument for sure. But there is no way of measuring or proving how much that organically gets lost. I still prefer the 21M hard cap meme. All money that existed before Bitcoin was "leaking", even Gold with its yearly 2%(?) inflation. So Bitcoin is the perfected money with a actual hard cap first time in the history of humanity. So introducing a small leak would mean that there could in theory be something "better" than Bitcoin still. I want Bitcoin to continue being the perfected money in this aspect, and if 0.001% of coins gets lost every year it just slowly increases the value of everyone's coins in a deflationary way.... just my 2 sats. Especially without any inflation required to secure the network due to the arguments I stated above.
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