This proposal is quite radical, but if the 21 million cap is changed to infinite inflation, is Bitcoin still Bitcoin? The community's uproar is not unjustified.

CoinWorld.com reports, citing Cointelegraph, that StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson posted on X proposing to replace Bitcoin’s hard cap of 21 million with a 4% annual issuance rate. He believes the current hard cap is unreasonable because private keys are lost over time. Ledger estimates that roughly 4 million Bitcoins have been permanently lost. Eli Ben-Sasson said a 4% annual issuance rate roughly matches global population growth. The proposal has sparked strong backlash in the community—opponents argue that the fixed cap is a core value of Bitcoin and that Bitcoin can be divided into 2.1 quadrillion satoshis, which is enough to address the issue of declining available supply.