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Here's a thought experiment: what if a random chance of "double spending" was built into the cryptocurrency? Then people would have an incentive to make the mon

Here's a thought experiment: what if a random chance of "double spending" was built into the cryptocurrency? Then people would have an incentive to make the money circulate, and you could calibrate it to prevent deflation. (Obviously, it would be meaningless if people could just move money from wallet to the other.)

javert 14y ago
That's a pretty novel idea, which would probably be appreciated by the (small) community of people who have a problem with the "deflationary" nature of bitcoins and are actually interested in doing bitcoin forks.