Well I see as January 2014, others below started to expound upon what I had explained in November 2013 at the threads given by the quoted links above.

On The Longest Chain Rule and Programmed
Self-Destruction of Crypto Currencies

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Btw, the above linked paper is a siren call for strictly CPU only alt-coins, with constant perpetual debasement and 0 tx fees, and which have some mechanism to limit pool sizes.