Why Monero’s Tail Emission Isn’t Just Smart, It’s Survival
There’s a quiet genius behind Monero’s tail emission—and it’s time we all started appreciating it.
Francisco ‘ArticMine’ Cabanas, from the Monero Core Team, dropped a nuclear truth bomb years ago that still echoes today:
“The only real solution is the approach Monero has taken: a tail emission of 0.6 XMR per 2-minute block in perpetuity… The 21 million BTC limit is great marketing and atrocious engineering.”
Let that sink in.
Bitcoin’s hard cap of 21 million might win applause from gold bugs and libertarian purists, but what happens when the last satoshi is mined?
The answer? A hope, a prayer, and a speculative guess that transaction fees alone will keep miners incentivized to secure the network.
Satoshi himself wrote:
“The incentive can transition entirely to transaction fees…”
Notice the word: can, not will.
There’s no proof. No evidence. No guarantee that miners will stick around for uncertain, possibly tiny fees. And if they don’t? The network dies of its own idealism.
Monero, by contrast, took the responsible, reality-based path.
With a perpetual tail emission of 0.6 XMR per block, Monero ensures that:
• Miners always get paid
• The network remains secure—forever
• Users always have a functioning, decentralized, censorship-resistant monetary system
It’s not just a patch, it’s future-proof engineering.
And here’s the kicker: because of Monero’s dynamic block size and adaptive block rewards, inflation is predictable, low, and decreasing relative to total supply. It’s disinflationary in the long term. Think sustainable heartbeat, not heart attack.
So while Bitcoin’s future is pinned to ideological hope, Monero’s is secured by mathematical realism.
We’re not just grateful for tail emission. We’re here because of it.
We stay because of it.
Monero doesn’t run on hype. It runs on principles, and pays its keepers.
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