From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: alicexbt <alicexbt@protonmail•com>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Surprisingly, Tail Emission Is Not Inflationary
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 13:29:51 -0400 [thread overview]
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On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 02:17:36PM +0000, alicexbt via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hi ZmnSCPxj,
>
>
> > Thus, we should instead prepare for a future where the block subsidy must be removed, possibly before the existing schedule removes it, in case a majority coalition of miner ever decides to censor particular transactions without community consensus.
> > Fortunately forcing the block subsidy to 0 is a softfork and thus easier to deploy.
>
> `consensus.nSubsidyHalvingInterval` for mainnet in [chainparams.cpp][1] can be decreased to 195000. This will reduce the number of halvings from 34 to 14 and subsidy will be 0 when it becomes less than 0.01 although not sure if this will be a soft fork.
What exactly would the benefit be of going through all the political headache
of a soft fork for what I assume you are thinking would be an insignificant
change in total miner revenue?
Or do you think total transaction fees at that point would be less than
0.01BTC?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-10 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-09 20:54 Eric Voskuil
2022-07-09 21:59 ` ZmnSCPxj
2022-07-10 14:17 ` alicexbt
2022-07-10 16:38 ` alicexbt
2022-07-10 17:29 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2022-07-10 17:27 ` Peter Todd
2022-07-10 18:12 ` vjudeu
2022-07-18 11:34 ` David A. Harding
2022-07-18 19:14 ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-18 21:48 ` Eric Voskuil
2022-07-25 15:04 ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-26 15:44 ` jk_14
2022-07-26 17:05 ` Erik Aronesty
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2022-08-19 5:34 vjudeu
2022-08-18 20:22 jk_14
2022-08-17 13:43 jk_14
2022-08-18 15:29 ` Breno Brito
2022-08-18 15:44 ` Billy Tetrud
2022-08-18 20:49 ` Erik Aronesty
2022-08-17 8:54 jk_14
2022-08-16 16:05 Peter
2022-08-19 17:21 ` aliashraf.btc At protonmail
2022-08-20 15:30 ` Billy Tetrud
2022-08-15 21:46 jk_14
2022-08-17 11:10 ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-26 20:01 jk_14
2022-07-19 18:36 Peter
2022-07-20 14:35 ` Eric Voskuil
2022-07-10 17:42 Eric Voskuil
[not found] <mailman.80287.1657405305.8511.bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-10 7:44 ` John Tromp
2022-07-09 22:21 Peter
2022-07-09 20:53 Eric Voskuil
2022-07-09 14:57 John Tromp
2022-07-09 15:13 ` Peter Todd
2022-07-11 18:44 ` Dave Scotese
2022-07-09 12:46 Peter Todd
2022-07-09 14:26 ` Eric Voskuil
2022-07-09 15:15 ` Peter Todd
2022-07-09 15:24 ` Eric Voskuil
2022-07-09 15:31 ` Peter Todd
2022-07-09 17:43 ` naman naman
2022-07-09 17:48 ` Peter Todd
2022-07-10 6:54 ` naman naman
2022-07-10 2:10 ` Tobin Harding
2022-07-10 7:08 ` vjudeu
2022-07-11 18:25 ` Larry Ruane
2022-07-10 10:18 ` Jacob Eliosoff
2022-07-11 2:32 ` Anthony Towns
2022-07-11 6:15 ` Stefan Richter
2022-07-11 10:42 ` Giuseppe B
2022-07-11 12:56 ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-11 23:57 ` Anthony Towns
2022-07-13 18:29 ` Zac Greenwood
2022-07-11 16:59 ` Peter Todd
2022-07-11 17:44 ` Bram Cohen
2022-07-13 14:06 ` Alfred Hodler
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