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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Everyone believes in BTC because of scarcity, how hard is it to increase..
by
tadamichi
on 13/07/2022, 15:27:48 UTC
..Supply if validators consent?
Why should nodes run a change that has no practical benefit? Artificially increasing the supply is basically just debasing a currency, there’s some people who believe such changes could fix security or distribution by ignoring what this basic concept does. This isn’t a new method and happened countless times with any currency almost, and always failed and never benefited the majority of a currency users.

Such a change would probably lead to a hard fork, and the OG Bitcoin would still come out as the better currency with more value. It’s probably impossible that every node would agree to such a change ever, so count it as impossible. That an altcoin will do it one day, is highly likely tho.