So why then do you think that a decreasing reward over time in DMD will increase the per DMD value, yet think the opposite for BTC?
Price has been pretty much uncorrelated with halvings/reductions of every alt I can think of from LTC to DOGE but I think the case for BTC price increasing with 'rarity' is much stronger than for DMD. Regardless of mining power efficiency, 1/2 the amount of new BTC will be created/day. BTC isn't a minor altcoin with 100 total wallets online like DMD with 90% of trade volume artificially created by the cloud mining purchasing. BTC price may or may not stay at a higher price after the reward reduction but it sure has a better chance of it than DMD because there is actual growing demand for BTC so that whole supply/demand equation might factor in.
I'm curious what your arguments are as to why DMD should increase in value as mining/minting rewards decrease but not BTC?
i think reward reduction on POW side is a reduction of miner sell pressure
so it have some positive effect
but BTC as i see it is heavy circulating coin in that total amount of sold and bought each day
the lower sellpressure from halved mining income have just a small effect
to be rare coin is for the way BTC works (middleman coin where value in end is again stored in FIAT)
not a major factor if more trading is done by shops acceptiong BTC (which the instant convert again to FIAT) just circulation speed increase
DMD is much more a storage coin with lot lower circulation because hold coin is rewarded via POS
there reduced sellpressure from mining and POS investment pools have more impact
but yes i agree a well designed coin rollout plan with constant decreasing inflation is just the basement
thats why we work for more DMD 3.0 as first step to switch the code basement towards in my opinion most promising tree of bitcoin based code
that in lot areas is more advanced than bitcois actual code special in key security and advanced layered structure with a state of the art module layout
and on top of the technical focused DMD 3.0 then the next step that follow will be focused on services and apps to give your coins additional value
and to give a additional answer to the question for what usecase its better to have DMD than BTC