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yeah, and this is not good. it's like a dollar, which loses value every day. and 1 dollar 10 years ago- it's not 1 dollar NOW

It's a much more complex topic than "it's losing value". First, you need to reward people taking care of consensus nodes and APIs (witnesses). In bitcoin, it comes from mining (which is basically inflation with a hard cap in the bitcoin case) and fees for the transactions. Hive is a fee-less platform, so inflation is the only way to reward those people. The same applies to author/curation rewards. We also have our own algorithmic stable coin (HBD) which impacts the inflation rate and actually can make Hive deflationary in some cases (which already happened in the past). Another thing is that deflation is not as good as you may think. It makes no sense to create a deflationary payment token because there would be no sense to spend it, knowing it can only raise its value over time. More and more newly coming blockchain networks are based on inflation because it's basically better than the deflationary model.