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1) Burn a part of the transaction fees and distribute them later (e.g. in the next halving period) in the form of a tail emission. This means that the supply will not be touched at all.

Imagine that your employer says to you, "In order to motivate you, we are going to hold half of your salary for 4 years." Also, consider the steady state -- the amount burned during the current period is the same as the amount paid to you from the previous period. The two cancel each other.


2) Create a second official Bitcoin token which is distributed in an infinite manner, e.g. 1 per block, to miners, from a specific block on.

This will only work if the token retains value. First, I don't see why it would hold any more value than any other alt-coin. Second, the value of an inflationary currency always moves toward 0.

Also, if the coin does somehow retain value, then it would be competing with Bitcoin.
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Scraped on 27/05/2025, 17:59:43 UTC
1) Burn a part of the transaction fees and distribute them later (e.g. in the next halving period) in the form of a tail emission. This means that the supply will not be touched at all.

Imagine that your employer says to you, "In order to motivate you, we are going to hold half of your salary for 4 years."


2) Create a second official Bitcoin token which is distributed in an infinite manner, e.g. 1 per block, to miners, from a specific block on.

This will only work if the token retains value. First, I don't see why it would hold any more value than any other alt-coin. Second, the value of an inflationary coin will eventually see its value drop tocurrency always moves toward 0.

Also, if the coin does somehow retain value, then it would be competing with Bitcoin.
Original archived Re: Tail emission ideas that retain the 21 million limit
Scraped on 27/05/2025, 17:54:34 UTC
1) Burn a part of the transaction fees and distribute them later (e.g. in the next halving period) in the form of a tail emission. This means that the supply will not be touched at all.

Imagine that your employer says to you, "In order to motivate you, we are going to hold half of your salary for 4 years."


2) Create a second official Bitcoin token which is distributed in an infinite manner, e.g. 1 per block, to miners, from a specific block on.

This will only work if the token retains value. First, I don't see why it would hold any more value than any other alt-coin. Second, an inflationary coin will eventually see its value drop to 0.

Also, if the coin does somehow retain value, then it would be competing with Bitcoin.