<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>The output has to be burned otherwise there is no cost of expressing</div><div>any number of alternate opinions the same time. </div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Tamas Blummer</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Bits of Proof</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div></div><div><div>On Dec 15, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Isidor Zeuner <<a href="mailto:cryptocurrencies@quidecco.de">cryptocurrencies@quidecco.de</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">For every participant who could try to decide about the adequateness<br>of the cost, no direct effect comes from the difference between Proof<br>of Burn, and approaches which keep the Bitcoins inside the set of<br>outputs that can still participate. So, any notion which<br>differentiates with respect to this must make some assumption about<br>what defines the interest of the Bitcoin nodes as a community.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Isidor<br><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>