<div dir="ltr">Thanks for this Peter. It is quite long winded and complicated so I just wanted to clarify one particular point. In John's proposal, are the coins actually locked up, or are they still freely spendable post-vote? Otherwise there is no real cost to casting votes. Locking coins up is related to the time-value of money and has a cost the longer they are locked up for.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 August 2015 at 15:23, Peter Todd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pete@petertodd.org" target="_blank">pete@petertodd.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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On 8 August 2015 02:27:35 GMT-04:00, Hector Chu via bitcoin-dev <<a href="mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>Has there ever been any discussion of locking coins till a certain date<br>
>for<br>
>casting votes on an issue?<br>
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</span>Yes, John Dillon proposed a very clever and viable blocksize vote scheme on this list awhile back: <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02323.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02323.html</a><br>
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