Oh yeah, i believe i followed intuition as well as math there, just hadn't thought it through before.
Another even more theoretical concern, correct me if I'm wrong, is that utxo set goes to infinity with emissions. No matter how good your storage (assuming atomic encoding is the limit , i guess) number gets unwieldy in a squillion years.
Hmm, id guess long term utxo set size doesn't depend on whether emissions continue, but mostly just on number of users and their usage patterns.
I guess you're right in 1 specific scenario, which is already interesting: imagine nobody uses bitcoin at all and we just mine empty blocks. Then it's clearly true.
Good point, hadn't considered finite population of users. Darn, i really liked having this (admittedly theory-only) leg up on the emission people
