On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 06:49:04 -0700 Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In 2013, a paper I contributed to offered a solution to the ever growing > blockchain delema: a finite epoch. The solution is similar the one Chaum > used on Digicash. It would fix, temporally, the blockchain to include only > transactions for the past 2 years, and what happens to funds older than 2 years? "Any money still held from transactions in these blocks would be freed up, and released back to the network in the form of a lottery." lolwut - that's trolling, right? =) > for example, thus creating a blockchain > of tractable and predictable size for affordable full nodes. > > https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-activists-suggest-hard-fork-to-bitcoin-to-keep-it-anonymous-and-regulation-free/ > > More recently, I've co-written a paper proposing a distributed service > solution that could solve thin wallet privacy and security issues without > needing to trust individual full nodes under the control of others. >