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I disagree that Ethereum is our competitor, Ethereum has no maximum supply and is digital fiat pretty much.
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Neither does gold have a max supply but ETH is most assuredly aiming for the cash use case.
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15,626,576 Ether minted by miners every year. Just think about that for a second... It's inflationary and designed to lose value, just like fiat. It's a major flaw.
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I find 4,855,015 ethers per year (for 2 ethers per block and a rate of 1 block every 13 seconds: https://etherscan.io/chart/blocktime). This is a 3.8% rate, just like... BTC and BCH.
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Awesome news. I thought the block reward was 5 per block. Thank you for the correction.
It's still being mined by Genesis, in Iceland. What is your opinion on Genesis mining?
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HEX is 'designed' to increase in value.

The tail emission is to provide a base level of security, which Bitcoin does not provide, which will eventually need to function solely on
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transaction fees.

Besides that, ETH will burn fees, so it has the potential to be deflationary should the network be popular enough.
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I was reading a Bakkt article this morning which stated the powers that be are looking into Ether future, trading options.
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