it is probably because "whitepaper" is meant as some sort of summary or abstract of the idea that is introducing the protocol in as short a text as possible. it wasn't meant to explain every small details that the implementation of the idea contains, that would make the paper 50+ pages long instead of 8-9. for example bitcoin isn't working because it has 21 million cap, or the paper doesn't explain difficulty, scripts,....
also part "6. Incentive" has some explanations about supply and new coins, constant cap,... so it is not there isn't any mention at all!
Topic: Why the economical part isn't mentioned on the whitepaper? - page 2. (Read 523 times)
If you control + f keywords such as "emission", "supply", etc, you can't find anything on the whitepaper. No mention of the total supply, of the emission curve, let alone block sizes and whatnot.
My take is that he just focused on the technicals strictly and in theory everything was up to consensus, even tho it was clear that protocol solidification and incentive mechanism would make those basically hard coded variables thus no longer practically variables which you could say are part of the technical design, but again nothing is mentioned there.
My take is that he just focused on the technicals strictly and in theory everything was up to consensus, even tho it was clear that protocol solidification and incentive mechanism would make those basically hard coded variables thus no longer practically variables which you could say are part of the technical design, but again nothing is mentioned there.
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