That being said, I don't see why I should pay more than someone else because I am a good little holder. For me, you are confiscating part of my holdings by forcing me to pay more over people who just started using Bitcoin. Is there any difference in practice if you take away 5% of coins from each address that has unmoved coins from 2010, or if you make them pay a 5% fee to move them? No.
Whether it is done by actually taking them away or forcing me to pay a huge fee to use them, is again just semantics.
Any fee could be considered "confiscation", so the hyperbole is not helpful. And, the fee I am suggesting, 1 satoshi/bitcoin/block, is not "huge". It is very small. It is not 5% over 15 years. It is only 1% every 20 years.
The system has to pay for itself, so fees are necessary. In my view, if some use of Bitcoin has a benefit, then a fee related to that use seems appropriate. You make it clear that there is a benefit to holding bitcoins, so wouldn't it be reasonable to pay a fee for that benefit? Why should others pay for your benefit?
I bolded the key phrase. Since scrypt/Doge solved the issue by simply decreasing its inflation rate.
100 years to 101 years inflation will be 1%
and rewards always stay at 10000 coins. Doge and scrypt is fixed and will always loom as a threat in the future.
as of today btc has not fixed this and the issue simply closes in 2040 and a 1.2 million price per coin should work
but 2056 price needs to be 12 million to work.
and LN may or may not help even if it expands.
As fees need to go to mining or miners switch to good old predictable scrypt.
lifting old stale addresses most are 2009 to 2010 may not work for a very simple reason they may get moved and the 1 or 2 million rescue coins may be more like 100,000 to 200,000 coins.