On Monday, December 29, 2014 7:21:02 PM Sergio Lerner wrote: > I propose to allow miners to voluntarily lock funds by letting miners > add additional inputs to the coinbase transaction. Currently the > coinbase transaction does not allow any real input to be added (only a > pseudo-input).
This is something I've wanted since 2011, but hasn't been a priority. > Because sometime in the future (maybe 5-10 years) we may have to deal > with problems of securing the blockchain, as the subsidy is lowered. We > don't want the number of confirmation blocks to be increased in > compensation because Bitcoin won't be able to compete with other payment > networks. > Then by having this hardfork now, we will be able to soft-fork later to > any rule we may came come up with involving deposit bonds, > proof-of-stake, and the penalization of double-mining (mining two blocks > at the same height) to prevent short-range attacks. I'm not sure this increases the priority of it. If someone feels it's worth the time, I'd suggest coding up a branch that hardforks it in at some far-off block height. Even if it doesn't get merged right away, at least the code will be available for testing and ready to go when/if that time comes. Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
