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Re:Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain by bobbygoodlatte on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:03PM (#18821079)
With a linear emission rate, the relative inflation percentage drops pretty substantially year over year. 100% year 1, 50% y2, 33% y3, etc etc.

At a certain point the inflation rate drops below that of fiat currency. Pretty smart IMO

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Re:Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain by gweinberg on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:20PM (#18821166)
I think if anything the emission rate should increase over time. Unfortunately most crypto currencies seem to be encouraging holding them as an "investment" instead of actually using them as a currency.
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Re:Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain by vbs_redlof on Friday January 04, 2019 @07:26AM (#18823504)
And over time, what was an O(n) emission rate becomes O(n!)
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Re:Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain by diaktifkan on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:50AM (#18823118)
> Unfortunately most crypto currencies seem to be encouraging holding them as an "investment" instead of actually using them as a currency.

Are you suggesting any of the top 5 cryptos are encouraging HODL besides Bitcoin?

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Re:Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain by jarodym on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:03AM (#18823174)
Currency and money are not the same thing.
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