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by theamk 2388 days ago
So where does all the extra money come from? Are you using new deposits to pay interest to older deposits?
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Just inflates, just like bitcoin. Bitcoin inflates to pay miners, HEX inflates to pay stakers. Everyone thinks that Bitcoin is deflationary, but it's actually quite inflationary, which is the only way to go from 0 coins 10 years ago to 18 million coins today. BTC had two pumpamentals. 1. Freemium onboarding by double clicking an exe in the beginning. 2. Cut inflation rate in half every 4 years. Now, even after it's been cut in half twice, it's still about 4%