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    1. nic carter‏ @nic__carter Feb 16
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      .@Truthcoin drops a stunner on Bitcoin's long term security budget. Outstanding as usual http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/security-budget/ …

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    2. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Feb 16
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      Replying to @nic__carter @Truthcoin

      Lots of dubious assumptions: * Tx fees have historically risen and fallen with price, but they assume they are disconnected * L1 is a payment rail (nope, it's a settlement layer, and no altcoins are generally not as reliable and secure a substitute)

      3 replies 12 retweets 101 likes
    3. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Feb 16
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      Replying to @NickSzabo4 @nic__carter @Truthcoin

      More bad assumptions: * Centralized services make it easy to switch to altcoins (no, mental tx costs + trust risks) * They seem to be implicitly making the dumbest assumption of all in these debates, that lower hashrate in the long run is less secure. Wrong.

      6 replies 4 retweets 63 likes
    4. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Feb 16
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      Replying to @NickSzabo4 @nic__carter @Truthcoin

      I've seen only one possibly good argument for reduced security under a tx-fee-only regime, and that's the volatility of fees, which seem to behave nonlinearly as blocks become full. Might lead to corresponding big swings in hashrate. But they don't even mention that.

      6 replies 7 retweets 63 likes
    5. Adam Back‏ @adam3us Feb 16
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      Replying to @NickSzabo4 @nic__carter @Truthcoin

      There is one implemented counter-measure using nlocktime of current height on new tx (core and some wallets so this), it means miners have to progress to claim fees. Other longer term low subsidy era ideas include fee averaging across block intervals to smooth fee revenue.

      4 replies 3 retweets 29 likes
    6. Joshua J. Bouw‏ @JoshuaJBouw Feb 17
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      Replying to @adam3us @NickSzabo4 and

      Fee averaging sounds like a good idea since fee estimations of 'current' block are just terrible. I constantly need to check websites to see what realistically I should set my fees at.

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      Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Feb 17
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      Replying to @JoshuaJBouw @adam3us and

      Indeed, this is an example that besides possible future security risks from fee volatility, there's a huge inefficiency of mental transaction costs and very (and probably necessarily) erroneous fee estimating algorithms with the current fee system.

      7:04 AM - 17 Feb 2019
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