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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: What are checkpoints in bitcoin code?
by
DannyHamilton
on 07/11/2014, 17:10:19 UTC
When block 100,000 is mined, drop the oldest 50,000 blocks. The remaining oldest block is the new "genesis block". Any remaining unspent outputs on the dropped blocks are given to the miner.

Bam, done.  Grin

This is a horrible idea.

Thankfully it can't be implemented without consensus from all of the users of bitcoin, and I'm confident that you'll never be able to get consensus on such a poor proposal.