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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @klk OP 3 Jun \ on: Are you comfortable with Bitcoin's security model? AskSN
Something that would fix this is a set minimum block reward, even if subsidy + fees are below it. Which would break the 21M hard cap but ensure that if the theory of fees making up by then does not work, we end up with a slightly inflationary asset rather than an insecure one. Or maybe everything works fine and it's not needed (same case as now).
Anyway, the network is secure for the mid term. So nothing to be done anytime soon.
Or, something even cooler, some kind of script that uses a philanthropist coins to do the same. Imagine someone with millions of coins, ahem Satoshi, sponsoring the security budget in a way that we all know that there's enough funding for the next N blocks and others can add their donations to extend it.
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This is a great idea and it says a lot that the security budget fudders don't just do this. They can do this right now with time lock scripts but instead they want others to bear the burden (typically there's some anti-hodler sentiment involved) so they (e.g. Peter Todd ) want to remove the 21M cap instead.