<div dir="ltr"><div>Added back the list, I didn't mean to reply privately:</div><div><br></div>Fair enough, I'll try to find time in the next month or three to write up four plausible future scenarios for how mining incentives might work:<div><br></div><div>1) Fee-supported with very large blocks containing lots of tiny-fee transactions</div><div>2) Proof-of-idle supported (I wish Tadge Dryja would publish his proof-of-idle idea....)</div><div>3) Fees purely as transaction-spam-prevention measure, chain security via alternative consensus algorithm (in this scenario there is very little mining).</div><div>4) Fee supported with small blocks containing high-fee transactions moving coins to/from sidechains.</div><div><br></div><div>Would that be helpful, or do you have some reason for thinking that we should pick just one and focus all of our efforts on making that one scenario happen?</div><div><br></div><div>I always think it is better, when possible, not to "bet on one horse."</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Thomas Voegtlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomasv@electrum.org" target="_blank">thomasv@electrum.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Le 12/05/2015 15:44, Gavin Andresen a écrit :<br>
> Ok, here's my scenario:<br>
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> <a href="https://blog.bitcoinfoundation.org/a-scalability-roadmap/" target="_blank">https://blog.bitcoinfoundation.org/a-scalability-roadmap/</a><br>
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> It might be wrong. I welcome other people to present their road maps.<br>
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</span>[answering to you only because you answered to me and not to the list;<br>
feel free to repost this to the list though]<br>
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Yes, that's exactly the kind of roadmap I am asking for. But your blog<br>
post does not say anything about long term mining incentives, it only<br>
talks about scalability. My point is that we need the same kind of thing<br>
for miners incentives.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Gavin Andresen<br></div>
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