Re: [bitcoin-dev] ossification and misaligned incentive concerns

2023-11-05 Thread JK via bitcoin-dev
I'm worried even more about something else, but still fits into the same topic category. A tax in the form of a direct tax is less acceptable to people than a hidden tax. This is human nature, as the saying goes, "What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over." A high direct tax (

Re: [bitcoin-dev] ossification and misaligned incentive concerns

2023-11-05 Thread Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
I don't believe the narrative that miners provide network security they provide double spend insurance and that's it so that limits the size of the transaction and the number of confirmations that are required before that transaction is cleared But it doesn't provide security for the rest of th

Re: [bitcoin-dev] ossification and misaligned incentive concerns

2023-11-05 Thread Ryan Grant via bitcoin-dev
On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 8:59 PM Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote: > is anyone else worried about this? Yes. +1 ___ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev

Re: [bitcoin-dev] ossification and misaligned incentive concerns

2023-11-05 Thread alicexbt via bitcoin-dev
Hi Erik, > currently, there are providers of anonymity services, scaling services, > custody, and other services layered on top of bitcoin using trust-based and > federated models. > > as bitcoin becomes more popular, these service providers have increasingly > had a louder "voice" in developm