If there would be an initial need for farmers early on in the beginning of the networks life, then yes, that would be one option to choose. No, not to substitue for paying farmers as they getting payed by clients/users of the network.
There needs to be alot deeper than that, such an important thing that will have a chance to impact the success of the network needs much deeper thinking. What maybe was right over 10 years ago might not be true today.
I don’t care for prefix, I care about large inflation which could have very negative effects the first years of the network existence, very important years.
Yes that is what would be good if the supply would be fixed, because a supply/demand market will always find a price, so there will always be coins you can get. And with the balance of more farmers can join if earnings are higher then store cost could be the same regardless the price of the coin. There is no need for minting coins as clients pay farmers.
I hope we can get much deeper talks about this because it is very serious and very important. And also some of my important points, about if the network will know current coins in circulation, have not yet been answered
I know you have built economics software and such but I get a feeling that the problems
is on another level and would need knowledge closer to a economics professor in macro/monetary economics.
Farmers get’s payed by clients who buy data storing space from farmers, there is no need to mint about 10x new coins, which might give a hyperinflation like the GRIN coin.