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Re:Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion c... by diego on Sunday February 02, 2014 @12:36PM (#7166695)
Those were the original rules. The title is misleading, people are disappointed because they expected the devs to eliminate the perpetual generation of coins in the original software. The decision was simply to do nothing.
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Re:Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion c... by oafitupa on Sunday February 02, 2014 @06:43PM (#7168119)
Those weren't the original rules. Their development team made a mistake and the inflation problem was introduced. Bitcoiners warned them about this, they didn't listen.
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