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authorTom Harding <tomh@thinlink.com>2015-12-20 19:23:40 -0800
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Re: [bitcoin-dev] Forget dormant UTXOs without confiscating bitcoin
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+On 12/20/2015 3:34 AM, Jeff Garzik via bitcoin-dev wrote:
+> Ideally we should start having wallets generate those proofs now, and
+> then introduce the max-age as a second step as a planned hard fork a
+> couple years down the line.
+>
+> However,
+> 1) There is also the open question of "grandfathered" UTXOs - for
+> those wallets generated in 2009, buried in a landfill and then dug out
+> 10 years ago
+>
+> 2) This reverses the useful minimization attribute of HD wallets -
+> "just backup the seed"
+
+Also, a change (#6550) has been merged to bitcoin core that removes
+merkle branches from the wallet, and if pruning gets turned on (possible
+in 0.12 with #6057), it would become quite a bit more difficult to spend
+older coins under a change like this.
+
+As a solution I would favor not removing wallet merkle branches.
+
+