From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph•org>
To: Eric Voskuil <eric@voskuil•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal: rewarding fees to next block miner
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:59:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgRcaRF5-8k94rL+fOjK2RJf0cjj+uqD+-db_VNZu9t8Xw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ecea1c8-bc60-223e-6e7b-48b390363794@voskuil.org>
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:21 PM, Eric Voskuil <eric@voskuil•org> wrote:
> Block space created by a miner is property that belongs to the miner, it
> can be sold or not sold.
That case would be stronger when there is no more subsidy, but we
collectively the uses of Bitcoin are currently paying miners around
$130k USD per block in the form of inflation for the job of honestly
complying with the Bitcoin protocol.
I don't think you can argue that they have any more right to do that
than any of us have a right to run software that invalidates their
coinbase outputs when they do; which would be the sort of retaliation
they might get targeted with.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-30 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-27 8:45 Nathan Parker
2018-01-27 19:06 ` Gregory Maxwell
2018-01-27 23:48 ` Eric Voskuil
2018-01-28 16:54 ` Lucas Clemente Vella
2018-01-29 0:46 ` Eric Voskuil
2018-01-29 1:44 ` George Balch
2018-01-29 4:49 ` Eric Voskuil
2018-01-29 21:22 ` Gregory Maxwell
2018-01-29 23:21 ` Eric Voskuil
2018-01-30 1:59 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2018-01-30 3:52 ` Eric Voskuil
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