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From: Thomas Zander <thomas@thomaszander.se>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] death by halving
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 22:43:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10121957.9n901UckJt@coldstorage> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALqxMTGWXkL3wPSVSDr7=R5KsSiHpwjXQO-k+EEk8KvLePv0rQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 25. October 2014 13.27.30 Adam Back wrote:
> - alternatively you might say why not 1/100th reward reduction per 2
> week period rather than 1/2 every 4 years, a difficulty retarget could
> be a convenient point to do that.

mining equipment has a much shorter lifetime than 4 years, so the halving 
makes it easy to base purchases on.
Also, divide by two is the cleanest way to get to zero after a specific amount 
of divisions.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-25 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-25 18:06 [Bitcoin-development] death by halving Alex Mizrahi
2014-10-25 18:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-10-25 18:22   ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-10-25 18:31     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-10-25 19:08       ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-10-25 19:16         ` Gavin Andresen
2014-10-25 19:53           ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-10-25 21:50             ` Melvin Carvalho
2014-10-28 20:17           ` Ferdinando M. Ametrano
     [not found]             ` <CAAS2fgSiz-XRVQ4V+KbrTUWG4=g=WGf8c-pF4b4fFnfyU9HOqQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-10-28 20:36               ` [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: " Gregory Maxwell
2014-10-28 20:57                 ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-10-28 21:19                   ` Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
2014-10-28 21:43                     ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-10-28 22:43                       ` Ferdinando M. Ametrano
2014-10-29 14:34                         ` [Bitcoin-development] Death by halving (pro-active proposals) Sergio Lerner
2014-10-29 17:25                           ` Jeff Garzik
2014-10-28 21:23                 ` [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: death by halving Ferdinando M. Ametrano
2014-10-28 21:34                   ` Neil
2014-10-28 21:44                     ` Ferdinando M. Ametrano
2014-10-28 22:00                       ` Thomas Zander
2014-10-28 22:38                         ` Ferdinando M. Ametrano
2014-10-28 21:57                     ` Christophe Biocca
2014-10-25 20:27 ` [Bitcoin-development] " Adam Back
2014-10-25 20:43   ` Thomas Zander [this message]
2014-10-25 20:28 ` Thomas Zander
2014-10-25 20:49   ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-10-25 21:51     ` Alexander Leishman
2014-10-25 22:10 ` Ross Nicoll
2014-10-25 22:42   ` Melvin Carvalho

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