On 11 Jul 2022, at 19:12, Bram Cohen via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: <snip> > There's a very well established day/night cycle with fees going to zero > overnight and even longer gaps on weekends and holidays. If in the future > Bitcoin is entirely dependent on fees for security (scheduled very strongly) > and this pattern keeps up (overwhelmingly likely) then this is going to > become a serious problem.
This may be true today when adoption is still low but will likely change if/when Bitcoin drives the world economy and is used 24/7 globally. There's a good chance our grandchildren will never see an empty mempool.
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