Couldn’t we just prune the old spent transactions in the blockchain and keep the chain and dB smaller
> > On Jul 3, 2018 at 6:58 AM, <juan (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 17:50:02 -0700 > Steven Schear <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I guess for you the article is a TL;DR. There was NOT a suggestion of > > simple confiscation. All one had to do, to prevent "reclamation", is to > > periodically move assets on the blockchain. > > > I know. So if you for whatever reason fail to move your funds they are > stolen. Doesn't seem like a sensible protocol. Also, moving funds every a > fixed period seems like a good way to make tracking easier? > > Last but not least what do you gain by forcing people to create new UTXOs > from existing UTXOs?? Most of the data in the ledger is old spent > transactions which are mostly useless*, except they are needed to make sure > the supply hasn't been tampered with. > > > *except for spying that is. > > > > >
