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205 sats \ 4 replies \ @jk_14 19 Dec 2022 \ parent \ on: On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward bitcoin
yes, tail emission is easiest approach and it would solve so many possible future risks, and even bitcoin itself will show us with first destructive halving occurrence - what is the lowest possible level of emission to preserve already reached network security level
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380 sats \ 1 reply \ @ursuscamp 19 Dec 2022
That is a game that, once you start playing, never ends. How do you know what is the right amount? Who makes that decision? Most likely there would be many competing forks looking for the correct "tail emission" if such a thing even exists. Eventually one would likely prove "correct" and become dominant, but how long would that last?
Bitcoin at that point will just become another managed currency. What if mining economics change again? Like a breakthrough in ASIC technology? We will be changing the tail emissions forever, always tuning, looking for the right monetary policy. The idea that Bitcoin's monetary policy is set will be gone completely.
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221 sats \ 0 replies \ @jk_14 19 Dec 2022
why do you ask question to already answered problem?
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bitcoin itself will show us with first destructive halving occurrence - what is the lowest possible level of emission to preserve already reached network security level
the stopping before a cliff (or: spiral of death) is one time process - we can remove (destructive) halvings or not
breakthrough in ASIC technology changes nothing (like every breakthrough from CPU -> GPU -> FPGA -> ASIC - didn't interfere with emission)
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @thebtctoto 20 Dec 2022
Bitcoin as an experiment is, simply put, hard money without tail emissions. It either succeeds or fails but adopting tail emissions means it is not bitcoin any longer...its something else at that point.
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180 sats \ 0 replies \ @jk_14 20 Dec 2022
Satoshi is not the Papal - he hardcoded a terrible long-term security model in Bitcoin experiment. Period.
Once we realise there is no dogma of Satoshi's infallibility regarding this above - the discussion to reach the consensus is open.
90% of votes is nothing else but still Bitcoin (vide: SegWit case)
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