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by jerguismi 2646 days ago
There are actually lot of cryptocurrencies with issuance for eternity: dogecoin, grin comes to mind at least. The inflation parameters are the easiest to change, if for Bitcoin those are a problem, some other cryptocurrency with better parameters can take over. The market will decide, as no one forces anyone to use specific cryptocurrency, there is pretty much free competition.
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I wouldn't say there are a lot. Among pure PoW coins I only know of Dogecoin, Monero, and Grin. Of those, Dogecoin and Monero have tail rewards at 1% and 1.7% (respectively) of initial rewards, while Grin has an eternal emission of 1 Grin per second. Kind of shocking how it took more than 10 years for the simplest possible emission to be tried...
Exactly! We can all learn from multiple parallel experiments in progress and we have choice!