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qertoip | 4 years ago

Ethereum is easy to change (hard forks often) and so cannot be expected to preserve any key characteristics like emission curve or even the permissionless nature.

In fact, Ethereum's monetary policy did change in the past.

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casi|4 years ago

The policy has always been “minimal viable issuance”

inter_netuser|4 years ago

what does that mean in practice?

who determines what's minimum and what's viable?

dmihal|4 years ago

The protocol is still in the early stages of development.

The social contract is that the protocol & monetary policy will ossify after the transition to PoS & sharding is complete.