Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Surprisingly, Tail Emission Is Not Inflationary

From: naman naman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 10:54:16 +0400

Hello ,

Thanks for the correction - it however boils down to the same principle :
diluting other holders, possibly excessively, if you miscalculate the coins
"lost".

Which boils down to the same question again : How would you definitively
know that coins are "lost" or simply not accessed for x amount of time?

Regards,
thenoblebot

On Sat, 9 Jul, 2022, 9:48 pm Peter Todd, <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 09:43:49PM +0400, naman naman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This approach raises the obvious question : If someone hasn't had access
> to
> > their coins in a long time (yrs, decades, however you want to define it)
> -
> > and they wish to access/move them after such a time - isn't your proposal
> > simply taking away their ability to do so? Some might call it : stealing
> > their coins.
> >
> > How does one conclusively prove that "lost" coins are "lost forever"?
>
> Re-read the article:
> https://petertodd.org/2022/surprisingly-tail-emission-is-not-inflationary
>
> It has nothing to do with re-assigning ownership of coins.
>
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>