you know what you are doing, you are creating a problem then trying to solve that problem that didn't exist otherwise. that is the problem!
Yeah, it's an old idea that went nowhere till now.
I've tried to look it up when I was thinking about this and nothing came up. Mind sharing a link to a place that discusses it (as a soft-fork for Bitcoin)?
this is indeed an old subject but interestingly enough i couldn't find much either except the famous hot argument about Satoshi's coins which is directly related to this.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1469099.0