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		mpyne on Feb 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 bi... That's not accounting for lost coins (either because the wallet is lost or the owner is prevented from spending them). The idea in the github thread seems to be that the 5% inflation should approximately cancel out the unknown loss of coins that would be going on.

iwwr on Feb 3, 2014 [–]

That's also insufficient over the long term since coins are lost as a proportion of the total per unit of time.

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