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littlecranky67today at 2:10 PM1 replyview on HN

> so the actual inflation rate approaches zero.

Now THAT is FUD. Current annual inflation rate is 0.84191433% [0]. That is massive and not "approaches zero". The value of Monero over n-years thus approaches zero over time, for big enough n.

While that is a little under 1%, it is still inflation. The ECB targets on average 2% inflation (while before COVID the ECB targeted maximum of 2% - so actually close to the Monero inflation).

[0]: https://p2pool.io/tail.html


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rationalisttoday at 2:31 PM

Thank you?

It looks like we have different definitions of "massive".

You also say it does not approach zero, but in the following sentence you do say it approaches zero.

I guess people need to decide if inflationary money is better or worse than deflationary money, and what amount of inflation is appropriate.

Personally, without too much thought: I think a monetary inflation rate should correlate with the population inflation rate, so that it's value remains somewhat constant (I'm open to changing this opinion with more information).