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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