>Bitcoin's mining reward halves every couple of years. When the Bitcoin block reward becomes negligible, as it certainly will in within a few decades, the only

>Bitcoin's mining reward halves every couple of years. When the Bitcoin block reward becomes negligible, as it certainly will in within a few decades, the only thing funding Bitcoin miners will be transaction fees, so the entire cost of Bitcoin mining will be borne directly by users of the network. I don't think this logic is sound. The cost of bitcoin mining is already borne by users of the network (aka miners)? What does the diminishing block reward have to do with anything? The end result is that if you do calculations, and perform proof-of-work, you receive bitcoin. It shouldn't matter to the miners if it comes from block reward or transaction fees.