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1/ The #TailEmission is coming in ~30d (block 2,641,623), so let's take a few minutes and walk through why the #Monero community chose a tail emission, how it works, and what it means for Monero user's and the project long-term.
Buckle up, this is going to be a long one!
Buckle up, this is going to be a long one!
2/ The Monero community, in stark contrast to Bitcoin's community, decided to include in Monero a "minimum subsidy", or "tail emission" in order to keep fees reasonable, ensure a lower bound of network security, and enable dynamic block sizes.
3/ This tail emission means that there will be 0.6 $XMR provided as a reward for miners in every block, instead of allowing the block subsidy to go to 0 as most other cryptocurrencies (like Bitcoin) have chosen to do.
This means there is not an arbitrary hard cap to supply.
This means there is not an arbitrary hard cap to supply.
