Economy would eventually come to a stand-still, no investments, no innovations.
The cryptospace *naturally* inflates/deflates with value invested in it. More investment = more coins. Less value = coins die. I’d like to see ‘money’ in general work like this
More investment does NOT create more coins. If I pay a billion dollars for 10 million BTC, or $0.01 for that same 10 million BTC, not even one Bitcoin came into existence as a result.
The key word is investment. Technically Bitcoin is not supposed to be an investment. Just like the 1.00 bill is not an investment. You hoard it because its $$, not because it goes up.
agreed. but if money must inflate with wealth, then there is no good way of doing this on one currency, fiat or crypto. My point is that maybe ‘cryptos’ (plural) could do this.
I agree that there are competing design goals. Privacy, speed, price. XMR wins on privacy and price (less than BCH for txn fees) but still has a PoW block wait time (only 2 mins tho)
XRP wins on speed and price: <5 sec to confirm and essentially free to use ($0.000001/tx or somesuch) but is no more private than a Visa card or vanilla BCH
BCH is 2 hundredths of a penny. If something is cheaper nobody is going to care. Wallet generates speed. Like I say nothing is faster than the Bitcoin.com wallet. NOTHING.
Agreed that below a tenth of a penny almost nobody cares. But if you want to support HFT and price discovery in a real DEX to match wall street, $0.001 >> $0.000001
XMR mixes 11 randm UTXOs with each txn. That is also more combos than atoms in the universe. That alone is not enough to protect you. Are the input&output addresses & amount encrypted?
I used monero as a user and developer. UX is pretty bad and it's almost not programmable because of privacy features. It's hard to see it grow when there are no apps except wallets.
Let's be real. Monero has been out since 2014. It will never pass BCH unless something happens where it is SIGNIFICANTLY better than BCH. And right now it's not.
The 0.6 XMR/block tail emission? It prevents XMR fees from going stratospheric like BTCs did from halving. It's also less than the expected amount of deflation (lost keys)
BTC of course loses on all 3: not private, slow, expensive (esp when network is busy). BCH is the second-run in all 3. Not so private (even with shuffle), nor fastest nor cheapest.
with fiat inflation is controlled by a single party. A plethora of cryptocurrencies might allow the process to happen organically, even if individual coins are hard capped.