minting

Or maybe the business is running smoothly and they're minting money so they just don't care what a minority of dissatisfied-but-loud customers/workers say.

There was a lot of talk around IPO that Google was minting a thousand millionaires, but a million is still 1000x smaller than a billion.

If Verisign was discovered to be routinely minting fake certs for the US Govt then they would be revoked.

Wealth redistribution also does have the effect of increasing the money supply, without minting more money.

Whether or not $2.8B is an accurate valuation is beyond me, but it does seem like they're minting money over there.

This isn't to say they're all doing it, but there are a lot of them out minting free money from the telecoms.

The problem is, aside for some potential wrt saving the cost of counterfeiting, minting and replenishing grubby notes, there's no tangible incentive for a State to get behind a respectable replacement for cash.

This is distinct from any fiat currency, where the minting authority can arbitrarily decide to inflate all your cash holdings out of existence.

Is the minting of money protecting some sort of individual right?

Dogecoin statically mints 5.25 billion coins a year, so eventually your monetary base becomes large enough that you are losing as many coins as you are minting.

They are minting money with no down side.

It wouldn't surprise me though given notch hasn't had a compelling reason to sell so far (no investors, lives a modest lifestyle, it's still minting money like crazy).

Minting, ATMs, secure transport, CC transactions are all things that can be optimized for lower energy if necessary.

I would love to see bitcoin having zero waste and impact on our environment but even now in it's current state it is much cheaper and environmentally friendly [1] than other methods like Gold Mining, Gold Recycling, Banking System Electricity Use, Paper Currency & Minting.