> there _is_ an infinite amount of any linearly emitted $COIN
The amount emitted at any time is not only finite, but limited by time, with the yearly supply inflation going down toward 0. There's no essential difference with a capped supply [1].
A tail emissions rate of 0.03% or less annually seems acceptable.
#!/usr/bin/env raku
use v6;
multi sub inflate($n, $r, $y)
{
my $m = $n;
loop (my $i = 0; $i < $y; $i++)
{
$m = inflate($m, $r);
}
$m;
}
multi sub inflate($n, $r)
{
$n * (1 - $r);
}
sub MAIN(:$rate = 0.0003, :$years = 100)
{
my $purchasing-power = 1;
my $inflate = inflate($purchasing-power, $rate, $years);
my $output = qq:to/EOF/.trim;
After $years years of inflation at a rate of {$rate * 100}% per year,
purchasing power is {$inflate * 100}% of what it was initially.
EOF
$output.say;
}
All else equal, a 1% annual rate of inflation costs you over half of your purchasing power per century. Even a 0.1% yearly inflation rate charted out over several centuries results in a collapse of purchasing power. This level of inflation practically requires investors to take countermeasures, like searching for alternative stores of value...
Expanding the supply on demand through on-chain governance in a way stakers can profit from, while sacrilege to “digital gold”, would be more palatable to me than rates of tail emission higher than 0.03% or so.
I’m only commenting from the perspective of investors concerned over debasement. 0.03% annual inflation reduces purchasing power by about 7% every 250 years.
The amount emitted at any time is not only finite, but limited by time, with the yearly supply inflation going down toward 0. There's no essential difference with a capped supply [1].
[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...