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From: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink•com>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Security problems with relying on transaction fees for security
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:38:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6617a48d-15b9-699c-42f3-35b32245102e@thinlink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ysyjl5+tYl+k3iHD@petertodd.org>

On 7/11/22 15:26, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>
> Anyway, designing protocols for "price go up forever" hopium is a bad idea.

Yet that is the design, and it's a good one.  It is equivalent to 
relying on bitcoin to steadily grow in utility vs. fiat currencies.

If it fails to do that, there's no point anyway.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-13  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-11 18:12 Bram Cohen
2022-07-11 18:38 ` micaroni
2022-07-11 18:43 ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-11 19:45 ` vjudeu
2022-07-11 20:35 ` Russell O'Connor
2022-07-11 20:52   ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-11 21:36   ` Peter Todd
2022-07-11 21:56     ` Peter Todd
2022-07-12  0:21       ` Russell O'Connor
2022-07-12  0:37         ` Peter Todd
2022-07-14  0:54         ` Anthony Towns
2022-07-11 21:18 ` Pox
2022-07-11 21:53 ` Peter Todd
2022-07-12  2:47   ` Bram Cohen
2022-07-11 22:19 ` James MacWhyte
2022-07-11 22:26   ` Peter Todd
2022-07-12  0:01     ` James MacWhyte
2022-07-12  0:31       ` Peter Todd
2022-07-13  0:38     ` Tom Harding [this message]
2022-07-13 12:18       ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-11 23:29 ` Anthony Towns
2022-07-12  3:56 Peter
2022-07-12 11:57 ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-12 15:08   ` Peter
2022-07-12 17:46   ` Ryan Grant
     [not found] <mailman.82083.1657699581.8511.bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-13  9:43 ` John Tromp
2022-07-13 11:56   ` John Tromp
2022-07-13 12:11   ` Gino Pinuto
2022-07-13 13:29     ` Manuel Costa
2022-07-14  9:33       ` vjudeu
2022-07-14  9:57         ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-14 11:42           ` Gino Pinuto
2022-07-14 16:01             ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-14 16:27             ` Manuel Costa
2022-07-15  6:03               ` vjudeu

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