On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 16:19, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> Regardless, there are simple ways to implement Warrigal's proposal on > top of assets, and I'm simply saying that I'd prefer that we use those > instead. For allowing negative balances, for instance, we could > declare that a person who transfers nonexistent coins creates them but > also incurs a debt. This is a bit less obvious than it would be in the > other model, but it's still doable. In this way, we would keep using > the asset system, which is already thoroughly tested, decreasing the > chance of bugs. > > > -Aris > Personally, I think bugs are more likely when you try to glue extra pieces on top of things like that, for instance your approach there would lead to possibly-weird effects around things cancelling each other out.
