So if we reach the cap and tx fees are not high enough, what would happen?
In this case staking stops being profitable and we lose on security.
This loss in security can lead to a loss of usage.
Which put tx fees even lower.
All that can result in a death spiral.
So a cap would be bad, not as a bad as Bitcoin cap (as costs of mining are way higher than costs of staking).
Bitcoin supply cap is the worse design flaw or Bitcoin. In Bitcoin history there were only brief moments where tx fees alone were enough to support mining. As Bitcoin block rewards decrease, security will decrease unless blocks happens to be congested. So Bitcoin will need to create artificial blockspace scarity to enforce its cap.
Ethereum doesn’t need to follow Bitcoin bad design and should look on what is best. Currently, it is not profit maximization (we could have smaller congested blocks to burn more ETH) but userbase development (low tx fees make people more likely to use Ethereum).
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