Received: from sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.192] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WV46q-0004TD-Cm for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 19:12:32 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from zinan.dashjr.org ([192.3.11.21]) by sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1WV46n-0006VJ-VP for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 19:12:31 +0000 Received: from ishibashi.localnet (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:5:265:be5f:f4ff:febf:4f76]) (Authenticated sender: luke-jr) by zinan.dashjr.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F32AD108083E for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 19:12:56 +0000 (UTC) From: "Luke-Jr" To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 19:12:22 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.12.6-gentoo; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: E463 A93F 5F31 17EE DE6C 7316 BD02 9424 21F4 889F X-PGP-Key-ID: BD02942421F4889F X-PGP-Keyserver: hkp://pgp.mit.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201404011912.22996.luke@dashjr.org> X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.6 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain X-Headers-End: 1WV46n-0006VJ-VP Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Finite monetary supply for Bitcoin X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 19:12:32 -0000 On Tuesday, April 01, 2014 7:00:07 PM Pieter Wuille wrote: > Hi all, > > I understand this is a controversial proposal, but bear with me please. > > I believe we cannot accept the current subsidy schedule anymore, so I > wrote a small draft BIP with a proposal to turn Bitcoin into a > limited-supply currency. Dogecoin has already shown how easy such > changes are, so I consider this a worthwhile idea to be explored. > > The text can be found here: https://gist.github.com/sipa/9920696 > > Please comment! I cleaned it up a bit. By 2214, we should be using tonal numbers after all: https://gist.github.com/luke-jr/9920788