StarkWare CEO suggests 4% annual Bitcoin inflation to replace 21M cap
The debate over whether Bitcoin's fixed supply cap should be lifted has resurfaced after StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson suggested Tuesday that it should replaced with a 4% annual issuance rate.
In a post to X on Tuesday, Ben-Sasson said the current 21 million cap ādoesn't make senseā because private keys are lost over time and āas time goes to infinity, all keys will be lost.ā
Crypto wallet hardware provider Ledger estimated in November that up to 4 million Bitcoin had been burned or permanently lost. Ben-Sasson said he still supports a hard upper bound on Bitcoin's supply, and that a 4% annual inflation rate roughly tracks the growth of the human population.
Bitcoin's fixed cap has long been one of its core selling points, underpinning the ādigital goldā narrative and drawing on Austrian economics, where a fixed money supply protects against monetary debasement and, in theory, preserves purchasing power over time. Many Bitcoiners have argued that changing the cap would undo the very thing that makes Bitcoin unique.Ā
Source: Eli Ben-Sasson
Bitcoiners have also said the loss of private keys improves Bitcoinās supply-demand dynamics because one canāt sell what one doesnāt have access to. One of the biggest advocates of this feature is Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor, who plans to burn his Bitcoin private keys upon his death as a āpro-rata contributionā to other Bitcoin holders, making their coins scarcer in the process.
Bitcoiners bark at 4% Bitcoin inflation proposalĀ
Ben-Sassonās post was met with heavy criticism.
One X user argued that Bitcoin is divisible into 2.1 quadrillion base units, called satoshis, in an effort to counter Ben-Sassonās claim that there wonāt be enough Bitcoin āto go around.ā
However, Ben-Sasson argued that those 2.1 quadrillion units would also trend toward zero over time because of lost keys.Ā
Other opponents argued that lifting Bitcoinās fixed cap would make it like other cryptocurrencies. However, Ben-Sasson said Bitcoin would retain its scarcity, provided that the inflation rate remained fixed.
The answer could be in Zcashās proposed fix
The founder of Zcash, Bryce āZookoā Wilcox, recommended that Bitcoin developers follow a proposal currently being considered in the Zcash ecosystem, since the privacy-focused network also relies on miners to secure the network and has a fixed supply cap of 21 million Zcash (ZEC).
The āNetwork Sustainability Mechanismā proposal seeks to keep ZECās fixed cap intact but lets users burn the token, which is gradually reissued as block rewards over a four-year period to ease pressure on miner incentives without lifting the hard limit.
However, Bitcoin developers, miners and node operators would need to reach consensus for such a change to occur, given the network's decentralized governance model, which makes it challenging to implement protocol-level changes.
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