Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin covenants are inevitable

From: Erik Aronesty <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 09:02:38 -0400

Yes

Although I'm guessing most would agree that would be worse.

I certainly would choose to add fee generating features over inflation

Probably most other people would too

On Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 11:36 PM Peter Todd <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 09:02:18AM -0400, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
> wrote:
> > Maintaining the security of the protocol is squarely the responsibility
> of
> > the Bitcoin software and the core developers
> >
> > Continued demand for block space is critical for Bitcoin's security.
>
> Only because the block reward goes away. If it was made to continue
> indefinitely - most likely with an inflation hard fork - demand for block
> space
> would not be critical to Bitcoin's security.
>
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