also "security budget" is absurd when you count the number of hashes being computed on the miner network is a monotonic, almost consistently growing number, the cost of the security goes down, while the capacity goes up, and the momentum ensures that unless half the internet goes offline and stops using bitcoin, it will never ever be short of security
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And you think Monero nodes work differently?
At security budget: I am talking about BTC reliance on a fee market 20 years down the road. We can assume that chances are >99% that Monero's incentives still work by then. There's less certainty regarding BTC.
yes, they don't actually count the UTXOs they just do some other authenticity thing that is spurious and already twice, unless i'm mistaken, has had an inflation bug
you don't care about inflation bug? fine
i am not buying gold bars because there is so much tungsten with gold plate