May 3, 2025

With this in place the bottlenecks have to move to things like network, block serialization, validation parallelism overheads… Development time would be better spent on optimizing those...

I find skipping amount validation more concerning (potential inflation bugs)

It’s basically free so it should do that for sure. That said, there are so many lost/abandoned coins that if miners (with developer collusion) create a chain that unjustly rewards them, they’ll just steal coins rather than inflate.