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Inflation

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An increase in token supply over time, reducing each unit's share of total supply. In blockchains, inflation is often driven by block rewards or staking rewards.

Appears in 4 whitepaper sections

$BTC Bitcoin
Incentive
...on, the incentive can transition entirely to transaction fees and be completely inflation free. The incentive may help encourage nodes to stay honest. If a greedy attac...
$XRP XRP
Existing Consensus Algorithms
...on, a cost ultimately borne by users of the system through transaction fees and inflation. - **Throughput.** Bitcoin's block size limit and 10-minute block interval res...
$DOGE Dogecoin
Monetary Policy
... per year. While this constitutes an inflationary policy in absolute terms, the inflation rate as a percentage of total supply decreases over time. As the total supply g...
Conclusion
...ces lost coins, and encourages circulation rather than hoarding. The decreasing inflation rate over time means that Dogecoin's monetary policy will asymptotically approa...

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