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ETH's long-term inflation behavior is undefined because the dev team has shown their willingness to alter the consensus rules whenever they deem it necessary.
by nemo1618 9y ago
ETH's long-term inflation behavior is undefined because the dev team has shown their willingness to alter the consensus rules whenever they deem it necessary.
- woah 9y agoYour inferences about the future actions of the developers whose version of software you assume most users and miners will want to run aren't really like a hard and fast rule. It's not possible for the rules of any coin to be set in stone, because people can run whatever software they want. The only reason that Vitalik and the Ethereum devs write the software that most Ethereum users run is because that is the software most Ethereum users want to run. If someone developed a Bitcoin hard fork that most Bitcoin users and miners wanted to run, that would be Bitcoin, whether or not it conformed to any various ideals and philosophies that anyone has about money.