If trusting a node to validate supply for you is fine, what is the problem when monero does it? Are you concerned of the complex math involved? (20+ year old cryptography)
You can't simply sum UTXOs like bitcoin. But, in practice, no one takes advantage of this anyway, they just run and trust a node to do it, so what does the real world difference come down to?
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npub1pc…hv373
2023-03-18 17:54:31
in reply to nevent1q…zuc6
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2023-03-18 17:54:31Event JSON
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