Quote from: pawel7777 on Today at 09:09:24 PM

Quote from: BitHodlers on Today at 08:34:44 PM

This thread is stupid. If we changed the economics to make this happen in the year 3140 you could make the same idiotic topic that serves no purpose whatsoever.
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OP's question is far from stupid. It's also not a "dirty little secret" as the OP suggests. It's a known issue that has been discussed since Bitcoin's early days.
The fact that 2140 is a long time from now doesn't make the issue go away. A good project should be sustainable and not have an expiry day, so it would be nice to have at least some idea how things could work when block subsidies become insignificant. Discussion should be encouraged, not stifled.

Discussion on relevant topics should be encouraged, real and pressing problems. If you don't have the knowledge for these, then you go ahead and create useless topics like OP. This problem is not for you or anyone alive today to "solve" even if it were a real problem.

Quote from: pawel7777 on Today at 09:09:24 PM

The original idea was for the transaction fees to become significant enough to replace block rewards, but we now know this may not work.

Stop reading shit posts by altcoin influences. There is absolutely no data that even indicates that this may not work yet.

Quote from: pawel7777 on Today at 09:09:24 PM

I guess, in the worst case scenario, we could have big players (i.e. exchanges, BTC-related fund managers etc) to take responsibility for mining, or we could change the consensus algorithm to something else like PoS.

No, POS is cancer.

Quote from: pawel7777 on Today at 09:09:24 PM

And it's not like we can just sit back and relax till 2140. i.e. in less than 20 years, block reward will fall below 0.1btc. Depending on the price, this could become a security risk sooner than many think.

No, it won't. Just because you repeat something that does not make it true. There are many many problems that are being worked on, many pressing issues and you want to waste time on this nonsense? Roll Eyes