So in trying to make an informed decision, regardless of how the vote comes to pass, I would find it tough to do so right now.
One of you is saying that there was no mistake in the emission formula, while the other is. I'm not asking which I should believe . . I'm asking for a way to verify this -- or at least one that doesn't rely on me just resting my personal opinion on either of you.
How can I get started on understanding the emission curve?
The quote I posted "close to Bitcoin's original curve" is from the original announcement here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=563821.0I think there was also some discussion on the thread about it being desirable to do that.
At one point in that discussion, I suggested increasing the denominator by a factor of 4, which is what ended up being done, but I also suggested retaining the block target at 2 minutes, which was not done. The effect of making one change without the other is to double the emission rate from something close to bitcoin to something much faster (see chart a few pages back on this thread).