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The new mining... This would basically make Bitcoin Keynesian, since coin stored in wallets would now decay with a given probability. So you would have to inve
by api 10y ago
The new mining...
This would basically make Bitcoin Keynesian, since coin stored in wallets would now decay with a given probability. So you would have to invest it at least a little to beat the decay (shrinkage) rate.
- andy_ppp 10y agoThis assumes an end to speculation which IMO will always exist.
- panarky 10y agoBitcoin becomes unspendable and worthless when the private keys are lost. But when you have the private keys, your Bitcoin doesn't "decay". On the contrary, it becomes more scarce, and therefore more valuable.
- TheDong 10y agoYou missed the point. Once the primary way of gaining bitcoins is hacking wallets, the longer a bitcoin is behind the same private key, the longer that given wallet is a target.
- billions 10y agoIMO, the most vulnerable wallets are going to be the ones actively in use and stored insecurely, for example, on Windows machines subject to the recent NSA bug.
- lern_too_spel 10y agoYou're mixing up Keynesianism with money supply increases due to changes to the reserve ratio, discount rate, and printed currency. These happen to central bank controlled fiat money regardless of whether the people controlling the money supply are Keynesian. Then you conflated losing some percentage of your cash assets due to inflation, which can happen even if the money supply does not change, to losing all of your cash assets with some probability. The former encourages investment, while the latter encourages not holding cash at all.