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PS: makes me wonder if we might eventually see something like "tokens not transferred since ${some generous date horizon} will get blacklisted starting ${some e
by usrusr 5y ago
PS: makes me wonder if we might eventually see something like "tokens not transferred since ${some generous date horizon} will get blacklisted starting ${some era switch date reasonably far into the near future for living address to create a lifesign transcribe}" merged into mainline. Or even "get reissued to miners". If that ever happened it would be at a time when total supply uncertainty would already noticeably influence price (basically: if you use it as a value store you need to hedge against possible old god address revival), and most buying/selling during the runup would be bets about the amount of dark addresses lighting up in time.
PPS: obviously I have no idea about governance of the code, but I do acknowledge that very few changes have ever been accepted (as evidenced by the high number of long running forks). I wouldn't expect any of this to happen before the known alive amount of tokens has become a tiny fraction of the dark parts.
- inter_netuser 5y agoBlacklists will be incredibly contentious and will likely never get merged. Even if they do - a fork is guaranteed to happen.
- usrusr 5y agoUndoubtedly. But my guess is that the threshold for blacklisting stale addresses would be noticeably lower than the threshold for any blacklisting based on, well, "governance". You could even conjure up an argument based on block chain "balance of hashrate" security, which I presume is the best type of argument with that audience: "what if, after mining rewards have run out, everybody is just doing value store? No transaction fees for those selfless miners! (will they still be called miners?) One by one they will close their datacenters, difficulty goes down and suddenly the gates are wide open for 51%. Quick! Introduce mandatory keepalive ping transactions or we are doomed!" Not that I expect this to happen, but I find these musings far more entertaining than the ups and downs of the market.
- bavdjdohrbd 5y agoThree FUD posts from you but no solutions. You got an agenda? Sound jealous. Bitcoin is an open source project, bro. If you see a bug fix it, don't complain like a bitch. Wtf? There are so many solutions to what you're talking about....
- bavdjdohrbd 5y agoWhy the hell would you think just "reissuing" some random bank balance to random people is valid logic??? What are you, a thief? "I wouldn't be surprised if I could just take that for myself." Wtf