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📅 Original date posted:2023-01-01
🗒️ Summary of this message: A sudden halving of the Bitcoin system could lead to a significant amount of hashing power shutting down and fees increasing dramatically. However, the market may price in the possibility of a halving.
📝 Original message:On 31 Dec 2022, at 10:28 am, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
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>> This way:
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>> 1. system cannot be played
>> 2. only in case of destructive halving: system waits for the recovery of network security
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> The immediate danger we have with halvings is that in a competitive market,
> profit margins tend towards marginal costs - the cost to produce an additional
> unit of production - rather than total costs - the cost necessary to recover
> prior and future expenses. Since the halving is a sudden shock to the system,
> under the right conditions we could have a significant amount of hashing power
> just barely able to afford to hash prior to the halving, resulting in all that
> hashing power immediately having to shut down and fees increasing dramatically,
> and likely, chaotically. Your proposal does not address that problem as it can
> only measure difficulty prior to the halving point.

> ... Since the halving is a sudden shock to the system

Is it though? Since everyone knows of the possible outcomes, wouldn't a possible halving be priced in?

> resulting in all that hashing power immediately having to shut down and fees increasing dramatically

Which should cause that hashing power to come back because of this fee increases.

Alfie

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📅 Original date posted:2016-06-29
📝 Original message:On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 06:45:58PM +0200, Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > then we should definitively use a form of end-to-end encryption between
> > nodes. Built into the network layer.
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> Widespread application of this model is potentially problematic. It is a
> non-trivial problem to design a distributed system that requires authentication
> but without identity and without central control. In fact this may be more
> challenging than Bitcoin itself. Trust on first use (TOFU) does not solve this
> problem.

Maybe the following paper can feed into this discussion:

"Decentralized Anonymous Credentials" by Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers
https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/622.pdf

Alfie

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