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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Tail emission ideas that retain the 21 million limit
by
pooya87
on 28/05/2025, 05:02:41 UTC
I still feel that confiscating stale addresses is what will be done.
Banks already do this.
and goverenments allow it.
To be fair most people are interested in Bitcoin because it is not like what banks and governments do, therefore they consider this against one of Bitcoin's main principles.
But we can't really predict what 2026 is going to be like so we shouldn't leap ahead to 2079 Smiley

Increasing Bitcoin's capacity by allowing more transactions per block is the direct route to higher fees for miners in the future but you can't actually ignore the downsides too.

Actually, more transactions mean more fees collected which becomes kinda a compensation as new Bitcoin rewards shrink. I think the trick here is doing it without making Bitcoin too hard for regular people to run a node which keeps it decentralized.
Whatever decision that is made has both advantages and disadvantage. Nothing is 100% good or 100% bad. The trick is always finding that balance to minimize the negative effects and maximize the positive.