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tromp
410 days ago
The capped emission certainly encourages FOMO and speculation. A fixed block reward would still provide scarcity in the long term while strongly discouraging speculation [1].
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https://tromp.github.io/blog/2020/12/20/soft-supply
1 comments
rchaud
409 days ago
Doesn't seem like a hard cap when every BTC is almost infinitely divisible into smaller amounts of "satoshis".
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jazzyjackson
409 days ago
denominating US money supply in hay pennies does not double the money supply
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tromp
409 days ago
Enjoy your uncapped supply of food and drinks, with each kg almost infinitely divisible into septillions of molecules.
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