10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 23 Nov 2022 \ parent \ on: 😱 How to rape bitcoin bitcoin
Firstly, transaction fees are not part of the subsidy, they are part of the block reward. You have your terms mixed up.
The subsidy is initial distribution of Bitcoin. Inflationary monetary policy
The fees are payment for services
Both make up the block reward
Secondly, I am not that worried. Peter Todd who does Bitcoin core testing and things, is worried and you can read that here:
https://petertodd.org/2022/surprisingly-tail-emission-is-not-inflationary
In which he references this paper: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/mining_CCS.pdf