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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinHistory OP 14 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper | Satoshi Nakamoto satoshi at vistomail.com Fri Oct 31 bitcoin
James A. Donald https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-November/014837.html jamesd at echeque.com Sun Nov 9 05:05:05 EST 2008 Previous message: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper Next message: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Satoshi Nakamoto wrote:
Increasing hardware speed is handled: "To compensate for increasing hardware speed and varying interest in running nodes over time, the proof-of-work difficulty is determined by a moving average targeting an average number of blocks per hour. If they're generated too fast, the difficulty increases."
This does not work - your proposal involves complications I do not think you have thought through.
Furthermore, it cannot be made to work, as in the proposed system the work of tracking who owns what coins is paid for by seigniorage, which requires inflation.
This is not an intolerable flaw - predictable inflation is less objectionable than inflation that gets jiggered around from time to time to transfer wealth from one voting block to another.
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Satoshi Nakamoto https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-November/014842.html satoshi at vistomail.com Sun Nov 9 21:14:30 EST 2008 Previous message: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper Next message: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] James A. Donald wrote:
Furthermore, it cannot be made to work, as in the proposed system the work of tracking who owns what coins is paid for by seigniorage, which requires inflation.
If you're having trouble with the inflation issue, it's easy to tweak it for transaction fees instead. It's as simple as this: let the output value from any transaction be 1 cent less than the input value. Either the client software automatically writes transactions for 1 cent more than the intended payment value, or it could come out of the payee's side. The incentive value when a node finds a proof-of-work for a block could be the total of the fees in the block.
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