I've noticed that the max coin supply (of 20 or 30 million coins) was never properly set, not even in Britcoin 1, so I plan to release a fix for that.
I can easily cap it at 30 million and have already written code to do that.
Does anyone have any thoughts about a "tail emission" to keep a smaller amount of coins being made for much longer after the 30 million limit is reached? What form should such a tail emission take? 0.5% annual interest rate? 0.05%?
Monero has a tail emission, as does Dogecoin. The reason tail emissions may be good is because:
- They encourage people to keep staking even after the main emission. (Without a tail emission, stakers only get the transaction fees of transactions they include in the blocks they create. But what happens if there are hours without any transactions? One might give up and stake a different coin instead.)
- Perhaps they help to restrict transaction fee inflation. ("I'm already getting money from staking so I guess I don't need to increase my fees
" ) Cash is one of the payment methods that Britcoin will compete with, which presently has zero fees (until cash machine operators decide to increase the fees).
- They can compensate for lost supply. Some Britcoins are lost every year, on purpose or by accident.
Mo