Hello,
Do you really think that tail emission is inflationary? Currently, Wownero with its slow emission curve produces more inflation, despite having a maximum number of units, than any other project that has adopted tail emission.
And above all, what advantage does constraining emission have apart from creating hype?
The limit on the number of units, just like a very aggressive emission curve (like BTC's), I've always seen them as a "marketing" system to artificially promote initial hoarding, apparent scarcity over time, speculation, and rapid adoption of a project, but it doesn't really offer an advantage (beyond purely speculative) to either the user or the monetary system being created.
Wownero is a step forward from Monero, precisely because of its very gentle emission, which eliminates the "need" to propose a tail emission "too soon" and doesn't automatically turn "early adopters" into whales who play with the price in crazy ways... but on the contrary, its "gentler" emission curve is anything but deflationary.
Moreover, in my view, the ideal cryptocurrency should have a linear emission (someone mentioned Grin). It may seem, at first, terribly inflationary, but over time, it becomes increasingly limited, until (in decades) it becomes practically deflationary.
It's like CPU mining, which is the perfect system, if it weren't for being always overshadowed by GPU, FGPA, ASICs, producing either a turning point in its hashrate or adopting a new algorithm that is theoretically resistant.
I know there was a stray sheep that played with these parameters in the
"Lolnero" fork, which was widely misunderstood, and even with its "failure," I always felt it was "the right path."
