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Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement by everfree on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:00PM (#32583280)
According to ultrasound.money, Ethereum's current 30d inflation rate is 4.1% annualized. If the merge were already behind us (flip the "simulate merge" switch), inflation would be 0.1%.

So, not quite deflationary but pretty close. If Ethereum network usage picks up again like it did in 2021, Ethereum will experience long stretches of time where it is deflationary.

https://ultrasound.money/

Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement by coolspot on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:54PM (#32584068)
Not sure this is correct.

PoS issuance rewards are 4.6%/year, which can be offset with burn rate, but it is at 0.5% now.

The site projects that in 200 years, burn and issuance will be at equilibrium.

Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement by everfree on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @04:08PM (#32585079)
> PoS issuance rewards are 4.6%/year

PoS issuance is 4.6%/year per staked ETH.

Only 14M of the total 120M ETH are staked right now, making the real issuance only 0.5%/year when taken as a percentage of total ETH supply.

Subtract the 0.5% burn rate from that 0.5% real issuance rate (with rounding errors), and that's how you get Ethereum's current situation of being "pretty close" to deflationary.

Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement by coolspot on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:12PM (#32588590)
Thank you for explaining!

Will gas fees burn or go to stakers?

Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement by everfree on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:27PM (#32588682)
Part is burned, part goes to stakers.

EIP-1559 is the Ethereum patch that introduced the fee burn in Aug 2021.

It's a bit complex, but basically speaking, the higher demand is for the network, the more expensive transactions become and the more ETH gets burned.

Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement by dsimmons on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @04:05PM (#32585038)
This. Based on current activity, it gets close, but if/once fees rise again, there's a threshold above which it becomes net deflationary.