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by ryanwaggoner 3121 days ago
The “naturally” part is interesting...we manipulate money supply partly to hit target inflation rate. Would there be a way to use the ongoing transactions on a blockchain itself to calculate an inflation metric, and then naturally increase or decrease the money supply to keep it around 2-3% or whatever?
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That's exactly what I've been thinking. Of course the inflation target would be arbitrary, but once agreed upon and baked into the blockchain logic it could maintain itself based on some parameter or set of parameters