[StarkWare CEO Proposes 4% Annual Inflation Rate for Bitcoin to Replace 21 Million Cap] According to Cointelegraph, StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson posted on the X platform, proposing to replace Bitcoin's hard cap of 21 million coins with a 4% annual issuance rate. He argued that the current hard cap is "unreasonable" because private keys are lost over time, stating that "as time approaches infinity, all private keys will be lost." Ledger estimates that approximately 4 million Bitcoins have already been permanently lost. Ben-Sasson suggested that a 4% annual issuance rate roughly aligns with the global population growth rate. The proposal sparked strong opposition within the community. Opponents argued that the fixed cap is a core value of Bitcoin and that Bitcoin's divisibility down to 2.1 quadrillion satoshis is sufficient to address the issue of declining available supply.