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Re: Tail emission ideas that retain the 21 million limit
by
takuma sato
on 11/06/2025, 21:12:01 UTC
⭐ Merited by stwenhao (1)
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It doesn’t take much to change a finite supply into an infinite one.
Only if you want to make a hard-fork, which will quickly put you into an altcoin land.

I would agree typically with this but with one exception: The quantum computer threat is very real in the long term, and as far as I know this may require a hardfork, and here I fear that people are going to want to stuff on the hardfork every idea under the sun, and since their idea does not get agreed by the majority there will be infighting. Im just hoping rationale may remain and we will just agree to something makes the most sense specifically for QC threat defense and that's about it. But some people may bring for instance this subject of increasing the tail emission, even if some novel ideal where it would somehow respect the 21 million limit which I don't see how. But that is the only scenario where I see an actual hardfork pick up traction due the QC threat. If we can get QC protection with no hardfork then that would be ideal.