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Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by londons_explore on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:14AM (#21279637)
Bitcoins rate of coin creation is also ~7% per year at the moment...
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Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by tromp on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:23AM (#21280857)
No; it's approximately 3%.

We had 4 years with 4x the reward, 4 years with 2x the reward, and about 3 years with the current reward, which makes for 1/(4x4+4x2+3) = 1/27 inflation.

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