I've got a better idea. Ben Bernake needs a new job. Let's just let him set the block reward. On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Jameson Lopp wrote: > To piggyback on Jeff, > > Any proposal that is going to add reliance upon data from third parties > outside of the Bitcoin network itself is likely going to be rejected > outright. This opens far too many potential vulnerabilities. > > "The exchanges that are kept track of could be hard coded into Bitcoin > or the miner could choose, how this works is not something I'm > personally focused on." > > Yeah... you can't just gloss over a little detail like that. There must > be consensus between the miners, otherwise a solved block will be > rejected by a miner's peers. > -- > Jameson Lopp > Software Engineer > Bronto Software, Inc > > On 12/09/2013 06:10 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Ryan Carboni > wrote: > >> It is not a violation of the trust of those holding the currency. Many > >> people bought Bitcoin in the hopes that it's value in the relation of > other > >> currencies will increase, not because there's a fixed money supply. The > >> majority of people using Bitcoin as a currency in exchange for real > goods > >> are using the exchanges. > > > > Your proposal has been met with widespread laughter. Were I not ill > > with the flu, mockery would ensue as well. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK > Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. > Download it for free now! > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >