On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Ferdinando M. Ametrano <ferdinando.ametr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2014 9:19 PM, "Gavin Andresen" <gavinandre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We had a halving, and it was a non-event. > > Is there some reason to believe next time will be different? > > In november 2008 bitcoin was a much younger ecosystem,
Or very old, indeed, if you are using unsigned arithmetic. [...] > and the halving happened during a quite stable positive price trend Hardly, http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg60zczsg2012-10-01zeg2012-12-01ztgSzm1g10zm2g25zv > Moreover, halving is not strictly necessary to respect the spirit of > Nakamoto's monetary rule It isn't, but many people have performed planning around the current behaviour. The current behaviour has also not shown itself to be problematic (and we've actually experienced its largest effect already without incident), and there are arguable benefits like encouraging investment in mining infrastructure. This thread is, in my opinion, a waste of time. It's yet again another perennial bikeshedding proposal brought up many times since at least 2011, suggesting random changes for non-existing(/not-yet-existing) issues. There is a lot more complexity to the system than the subsidy schedule. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
