Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin covenants are inevitable

2022-07-18 Thread Anthony Towns via bitcoin-dev
On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 06:39:34PM +, alicexbt via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Covenants on bitcoin will eventually be implemented with a soft fork. That's begging the question. The issue is whether we should allow such soft forks, or if the danger of losing coins to covenants and thus losing

Re: [bitcoin-dev] How to do Proof of Micro-Burn?

2022-07-18 Thread Ruben Somsen via bitcoin-dev
Good evening ZmnSCPxj, Interesting attempt. >a * G + b * G + k * G Unfortunately I don't think this qualifies as a commitment, since one could trivially open the "commitment" to some uncommitted value x (e.g. a is set to x and b is set to a+b-x). Perhaps you were thinking of Pedersen

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Surprisingly, Tail Emission Is Not Inflationary

2022-07-18 Thread Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev
> On Jul 18, 2022, at 14:14, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev > wrote: > >  >> >> subsidy to directly tie miner revenue to the total value of Bitcoin >> makes it not exactly how we want to incentivise a service that keeps >> > > again, this is meaningless. if the fees aren't enough to

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Surprisingly, Tail Emission Is Not Inflationary

2022-07-18 Thread Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
> > > subsidy to directly tie miner revenue to the total value of Bitcoin > makes it not exactly how we want to incentivise a service that keeps > > again, this is meaningless. if the fees aren't enough to keep bitcoin secure for large transactions, then large holders are incentivised to mine

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Surprisingly, Tail Emission Is Not Inflationary

2022-07-18 Thread David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev
On 2022-07-10 07:27, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: The block subsidy directly ties miner revenue to the total value of Bitcoin: that's exactly how you want to incentivise a service that keeps Bitcoin secure. I'm confused. I thought your argument in the OP of this thread was that a