Can there be a minimum amount to put up for mining ? I hope i’m not in 
violation with any ideology yet :)

> On Mar 30, 2017, at 10:01 PM, Jared Lee Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> That would be blockchain sharding.
> 
> Would be amazing if someone could figure out how to do it trustlessly.  So 
> far I'm not convinced it is possible to resolve the conflicts between the 
> shards and commit transactions between shards.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Vladimir Zaytsev <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> There must be a way to organize “branches” of smaller activity to join main 
> tree after they grow. Outsider a bit, I see going circles here, but not 
> everything must be accepted in the chain. Good idea as it is, it’s just too 
> early to record every sight….
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 30, 2017, at 5:52 PM, Jared Lee Richardson via bitcoin-dev 
>> <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> > Further, we are very far from the point (in my appraisal) where fees are 
>> > high enough to block home users from using the network.
>> 
>> This depends entirely on the usecase entirely.  Most likely even without a 
>> blocksize increase, home purchases will be large enough to fit on the 
>> blocksize in the forseeable future.  Microtransactions(<$0.25) on the other 
>> hand aren't viable no matter what we try to do - There's just too much data.
>> 
>> Most likely, transaction fees above $1 per tx will become unappealing for 
>> many consumers, and above $10 is likely to be niche-level.  It is hard to 
>> say with any certainty, but average credit card fees give us some 
>> indications to work with - $1.2 on a $30 transaction, though paid by the 
>> business and not the consumer.
>> 
>> Without blocksize increases, fees higher than $1/tx are basically 
>> inevitable, most likely before 2020.  Running a node only costs $10/month if 
>> that.  If we were going to favor node operational costs that highly in the 
>> weighting, we'd better have a pretty solid justification with mathematical 
>> models or examples.
>> 
>> > We should not throw away the core innovation of monetary sovereignty in 
>> > pursuit of supporting 0.1% of the world's daily transactions.
>> 
>> If we can easily have both, why not have both?
>> 
>> An altcoin with both will take Bitcoin's monetary sovereignty crown by 
>> default.  No crown, no usecases, no Bitcoin.
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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