The original Bitcoin incentive alignment was setup in such a way such that as long as every party continued to compete, specialize, and innovate, the network would grow to one large enough to process all peer to peer transactions for the planet. It was setup in a way that distributed the token to the network participants over time, to reward them for their work in transaction verification, and ALSO for their investments in building out the network backbone resiliency. This latter reason is something that a lot of the Proof-of-Stakers like ETH advocates and Blockstreamers are ignorant to. The value of this coin distribution, or block rewards, when it hits the end of the schedule, must be replaced by transaction fees. Whether or not by having higher fees due to a fee market or by way of just having a lot more transactions at the same low cost. Put simply, the original Bitcoin model, was to grow via a ping pong between new miners entering the industry and committing capital to build out the network and the price appreciation of the token such that when all the network subsidies run out, the common user can still use Bitcoin by paying some very low fixed fee for each transaction. Given that Bitcoin's "

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