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You can do it on 2nd layer solutions such as the lightning network,
with their own format.
On the base layer you cannot do it without a hard fork, or it would
undermine the invariants of bitcoin.
2017-12-12 8:24 GMT+00:00 Teweldemedhin Aberra <teweldemat@gmail.com>:
> How?
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>
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> From: Ricardo Filipe
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 4:44 AM
> To: Teweldemedhin Aberra; Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
> Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP - Dead Man's Switch
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> 2017-12-12 1:10 GMT+00:00 Teweldemedhin Aberra via bitcoin-dev
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>> Hi,
>
>> The only solution other than Dead Man's Switch to avoid gradual loss
>
>> Bitcoins in transaction is increasing the divisibiliy of Bitcoins. Then
>
>> Bitcoin values will need integer of more than 64 bits. Could that be done
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>> with soft fork?
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>>
>
>> On Dec 11, 2017 9:42 PM, <bitcoin-dev-request@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
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>> wrote:
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>>>
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>>> You can implement this already, but only for ~1 year expirations.
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>>>
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>>> IF <normal script> ELSE <1 year> CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY ENDIF
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>>>
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>>> Perhaps it would make sense to propose a flag extending the range of
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>>> relative
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>>> lock-times so you can do several years?
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>>>
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>>> Luke
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>>>
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>>>
>
>>> On Monday 11 December 2017 5:30:37 PM Teweldemedhin Aberra via
>>> bitcoin-dev
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>>> wrote:
>
>>> > It is estimated that about 4 million of the about 16.4 Bitcoins ever
>
>>> > mined
>
>>> > are lost forever because no one knows the private keys of some Bitcoin
>
>>> > addresses. This effectively mean there are actually only 14.4 million
>
>>> > Bitcoins in circulation even though 16.4 million are mined. There is no
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>>> > way
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>>> > of eliminating the human errors that cause these losses of Bitcoin from
>
>>> > circulation, while the number of Bitcoin that will ever be mined is
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>>> > capped
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>>> > at 21 million. This means the total number of Bitcoins that are in
>
>>> > circulation will eventually become zero, bringing the network to an
>>> > end.
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>>> >
>
>>> > The solution this BIP proposes is to implementing a dead man's switch
>>> > to
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>>> > Bitcoin addresses. The dead man's switch causes the Bitcoins assigned
>>> > to
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>>> > dormant addresses to automatically expire. A Bitcoin address is deemed
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>>> > dormant if it is not used in transactions for some fixed length of
>>> > time,
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>>> > say ten years.
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>>> >
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>>> > The calculation of the miner's reward should take into account the
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>>> > Bitcoins
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>>> > that has expired. This means there is a possibility that miner's reward
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>>> > can
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>>> > increase if sufficient number of Bitcoins expire.
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>>> >
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>>> > Ref:
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>>> >
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>>> > http://fortune.com/2017/11/25/lost-bitcoins/
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