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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Finite monetary supply for Bitcoin
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 12:07:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgT_n-WAHLDRn8TqKB=gsj4bZeRgRAtZiUcKmPFew4MwBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBh1_mYH4JNv1xTFnLsoC=qzmgi0QaLAyd7YeQ=wZQBDSQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I understand this is a controversial proposal, but bear with me please.
> I believe we cannot accept the current subsidy schedule anymore, so I
> wrote a small draft BIP with a proposal to turn Bitcoin into a
> limited-supply currency. Dogecoin has already shown how easy such
> changes are, so I consider this a worthwhile idea to be explored.
>
> The text can be found here: https://gist.github.com/sipa/9920696

A minor nitpick:  It is well known that the Bitcoin core developers
are some of the most active TypeScript coders around,
E.g. http://osrc.dfm.io/sipa  and http://osrc.dfm.io/gavinandresen

But I think this is an important step forward: Seminal alternative
crypto-currencies such as SolidCoin showed us that economic parameters
can be freely changed at any time, for any (or no) reason at all; and
so we should take this opportunity to demonstrate our commitment to
adopting innovative features like non-inflation regardless of their
origins in other crypto-currencies.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-01 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-01 19:00 Pieter Wuille
2014-04-01 19:04 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-01 20:59   ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-04  3:41   ` kjj
2014-04-04  7:01     ` Wladimir
2014-04-04 13:19       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-04-05 10:21         ` Jorge Timón
2014-04-05 10:40           ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-05 11:28             ` Jorge Timón
2014-04-05 11:28             ` Wladimir
2014-04-05 15:54               ` Daryl Tucker
2014-04-05 17:29     ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-01 19:07 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2014-04-01 19:09 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-01 19:09 ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-01 19:11 ` Matt Corallo
2014-04-01 21:42   ` Jorge Timón
2014-04-01 19:12 ` Luke-Jr
2014-04-01 19:16   ` Benjamin Cordes
2014-04-01 19:19     ` Luke-Jr
2014-04-01 20:00 ` Peter Todd
2014-04-01 20:53   ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-01 21:47     ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-01 21:51       ` Daryl Banttari
2014-04-01 22:03         ` Jeff Garzik
2014-04-01 21:51       ` Matt Corallo
2014-04-01 22:37       ` Pieter Wuille

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