Crypto Piggie
@DatCryptoPiggie
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Monero’s tail emission, the permanent 0.6 XMR block reward that kicked in after the main emission curve ended in mid 2022 was deliberately designed to be perpetual and inflationary by a tiny amount not because the developers wanted endless money printing, but to solve a problem most cryptocurrencies pretend doesn’t exist.
Unlike Bitcoin, which bets everything on transaction fees eventually being high enough to secure the chain once subsidies end, Monero’s creators openly admitted that a pure fee market might fail under certain conditions
(low fees → low security → centralization risk).
So they baked in a tiny forever inflation of 0.6 XMR every 2 minutes, trending toward 0% over decades as the total supply grows specifically to guarantee miners always have a baseline incentive, no matter how low fees drop.
This makes Monero one of the very few major crypto that mathematically ensures long term security doesn’t rely on hoping people suddenly pay high transaction fees forever. It’s a quiet but bold philosophical departure from the “fixed supply forever” dogma most crypto projects follow.
Most people only know Monero equals privacy, but this tail emission choice is actually a pretty hardcore engineering stance on sustainable decentralization
