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authorRicardo Filipe <ricardojdfilipe@gmail.com>2017-12-12 14:02:12 +0000
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Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP - Dead Man's Switch
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+Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:02:12 +0000
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+Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP - Dead Man's Switch
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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?
+>
+>
+>
+> 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
+>
+>
+>
+> yes
+>
+>
+>
+> 2017-12-12 1:10 GMT+00:00 Teweldemedhin Aberra via bitcoin-dev
+>
+> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>:
+>
+>> 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
+>
+>> with soft fork?
+>
+>>
+>
+>> On Dec 11, 2017 9:42 PM, <bitcoin-dev-request@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
+>
+>> wrote:
+>
+>>>
+>
+>>> You can implement this already, but only for ~1 year expirations.
+>
+>>>
+>
+>>> IF <normal script> ELSE <1 year> CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY ENDIF
+>
+>>>
+>
+>>> Perhaps it would make sense to propose a flag extending the range of
+>
+>>> relative
+>
+>>> lock-times so you can do several years?
+>
+>>>
+>
+>>> Luke
+>
+>>>
+>
+>>>
+>
+>>> On Monday 11 December 2017 5:30:37 PM Teweldemedhin Aberra via
+>>> bitcoin-dev
+>
+>>> 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
+>
+>>> > way
+>
+>>> > of eliminating the human errors that cause these losses of Bitcoin from
+>
+>>> > circulation, while the number of Bitcoin that will ever be mined is
+>
+>>> > capped
+>
+>>> > at 21 million. This means the total number of Bitcoins that are in
+>
+>>> > circulation will eventually become zero, bringing the network to an
+>>> > end.
+>
+>>> >
+>
+>>> > The solution this BIP proposes is to implementing a dead man's switch
+>>> > to
+>
+>>> > Bitcoin addresses. The dead man's switch causes the Bitcoins assigned
+>>> > to
+>
+>>> > dormant addresses to automatically expire. A Bitcoin address is deemed
+>
+>>> > dormant if it is not used in transactions for some fixed length of
+>>> > time,
+>
+>>> > say ten years.
+>
+>>> >
+>
+>>> > The calculation of the miner's reward should take into account the
+>
+>>> > Bitcoins
+>
+>>> > that has expired. This means there is a possibility that miner's reward
+>
+>>> > can
+>
+>>> > increase if sufficient number of Bitcoins expire.
+>
+>>> >
+>
+>>> > Ref:
+>
+>>> >
+>
+>>> > http://fortune.com/2017/11/25/lost-bitcoins/
+>
+>>> >
+>
+>>> >
+>
+>>> >
+>
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