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Story: DigiByte (DGB) After Being Fully Mined in 2035 will Not Need New Mined Coins to Sustain Value

By Dan Saada

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Digibyte (DGB) More than Enough Transactions

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One of the Digibyte community members seemed to have a genuine question, he asked do you think DigiByte being fully mined by 2035 is a good or bad thing?

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In response someone recommended that he read, the Satoshi explanation of the Bitcoin economic model. 

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The summary of the content goes like, “If you're having trouble with the inflation issue, it's easy to tweak it for transaction fees instead.

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However, some of the others felt, It's bad.

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Further others felt that the DGB activity should explode over the next 14 years to be able to generate a good transaction fee market for miners since there will be no more block…

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Someone who was not impressed by the reply, commented stating, “You see the price of bitcoin in 11 years? How is 14 not a lot?

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Sydney Ifergan, the crypto expert tweeted:  “Digibyte (DGB) is formed to be good.   When the mining is complete, we will have more new methods by which the network will make money.

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A positive note from a community member Dominic Cyr clarified, we already have monthly block reward reduction by 1%. So far, this has been offset by increasing transactions.

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Dominic Cyr further stated, It's a fair concern though if the user base growth stagnate. I'm fairly confident that we will keep growing as a community after all anyone who take a…

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Jared Tate responded stating, “Great question. 1st the blockchain continues. Miners earn tx fees as an incentive to mine w/ no block reward.

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Pessimists feel, DigiByte averages 1.5 transactions per block. After 7 years, the economic incentive isn't there without block rewards.

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