{"id":644163,"date":"2026-08-16T19:53:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=839744"},"modified":"2026-08-16T19:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:53:39","slug":"peter-todds-tail-emissions-pitch-sparks-bitcoin-inflation-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/peter-todds-tail-emissions-pitch-sparks-bitcoin-inflation-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Todd\u2019s Tail Emissions Pitch Sparks Bitcoin Inflation Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/peter-todds-tail-emissions-pitch-sparks-bitcoin-inflation-debate-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Bitcoin developer Peter Todd\u2019s proposal to give miners a permanent stream of new bitcoin has triggered a fresh backlash from users who see the 21 million supply limit as the asset\u2019s most important promise. The fuse was lit when Bitcoin++ posted Todd\u2019s July 23 Toronto talk, \u201cTail Emissions and Demurrage,\u201d on Aug. 14. The comment [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin developer Peter Todd\u2019s proposal to give miners a permanent stream of new bitcoin has triggered a fresh backlash from users who see the 21 million supply limit as the asset\u2019s most important promise. The fuse was lit when Bitcoin++ posted Todd\u2019s July 23 Toronto talk, \u201cTail Emissions and Demurrage,\u201d on Aug. 14. The comment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-644163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-blockchain","9":"category-featured","10":"category-mining"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}