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.

Monero is safu as long as the known laws of cryptography are safu, and the devs don’t blunder implementation. The note below has resources that explain how Monero’s supply systems work. View quoted note →

These are resources that explain why it is unlikely for an inflation bug to occur in Monero, as well some other general supply concerns. View quoted note →

I guess there's also the predictability question. Since the inflation is variable, one can never know what the supply will be at any given FUTURE time will be. This disallows supply based predictions and rational economic decisions. (The same way you can't predict fiat supply inflation so mamy just act irrationally.)

print_coinbase_tx_sum in the Monero wallet. Below is additional information regarding how supply works in Monero. View quoted note →