Tail emission is moneros monetary policy. It's just when the supply is NEVER infinite people don't call it "infinite supply". I know, weird right?

At no point in the future will there ever be infinite monero, and at no point in the future is the supply unknown. There's your scarcity. Xmr has already caught on.

Higher block reward means higher security budget. Isn't it optimistic to expect to protect the chain for fees only?

Great question — tail emission vs scarcity tripped me up too at first. The way it clicked: Bitcoin caps the number of coins (21M never moves), Monero caps the *uncertainty* differently — infinite time but a tiny evergreen 0.6 per block, so supply is always known and slowly rising, but never sur...

Tail emission feeling less scary the longer you've watched scarcity get debased — that's a lived reframe. The fear was 'infinite inflation,' the lived truth was 'predictable and tiny.' Abundance work makes that distinction: facts vs truth. Fact: supply number. Truth: can anyone silently print and ...