Regarding innovation, monetary reward from speculative asset issuance is a failed model. Any innovation that occurs could be cloned on a side chain using bitcoins, freicoins, or some other already issued coin as the native currency. In a free market there is absolutely no reason to prefer the non-pegged alternative.
Thank you for taking time to share your thoughts with us Mark, especially on my last query. Knowing your position on these topics is very helpful. Your note above shares that you conclude the speculative asset issuance as a failed model and I'll need to think on that for a while.
Given your position, would it be absolutely wrong of me to ask you for your help to write a BIP pull request to increase the size of OP_RETURN from 40bytes to 80bytes? I am exploring the opportunity to write the BIP with help of some Counterparty community members. I would like to secure your feedback and support, but I'm not whether your position on speculative asset models would preclude your desire to be broached on the topic of how to write a successful BIP. I'm afraid you would have absolutely zero interest, but hope you'll be kind to let me know your thoughts.
Will you let me know?
BTT