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Re: Zero interest Bitcoin mortgages
by
luxgladius
on 29/06/2011, 12:23:30 UTC
As others have mentioned, the idea as it stands is unworkable because you don't understand how Bitcoin works. Miners don't need your transaction to mine Bitcoins. The only incentive that a miner has to process a particular transaction is the fee associated with it. Blocks can be created with no transactions other than the one that creates 50 BTC. You're not offering any incentive to a miner that he doesn't already have.

Now if you offered a fee to a miner and an exclusive right to mine that transaction rather than broadcasting it to a network, that would be something at least. As others have mentioned though, not many players have sufficient power to solo mine any more, so it would take them a highly variable random amount of time to actually generate the block with your transaction. And then you're not having zero-interest, you're just having a fee in place of the interest.