Pretty good article by Seth, the others not so great. I would contend with the description "deflationary" for a money with inflation. Lost coins are not non-circulating coins they are still a part of the stock/supply because it is unknowable whether coins are truly lost.
And it's also disingenuous to say "Bitcoin's inflation is currently higher" as if it is not programmatically a fixed amount. Where is there is no programmatic limit to Monero's.
Regardless Monero is not as bad as I thought. It is quite bloated (which is centralizing which is never mentioned in those articles) and inflationary (even though it's not as inflationary as I had heard before, I thought the dynamic blocks made inflation worse which is apparently not the case [I haven't checked]).
I am however wondering how strong the network effect is. Also, I have to dive into RandomX limits because I feel like I could likely find a way to optimize multi-cpu setups if hardware limited and hash signal separation if data stream limited.
Anyway, thanks for the resources.
/ JackTheMimic
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