Peter Todd [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: š Original date posted:2019-03-31 š Original message:On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at ...
š
Original date posted:2019-03-31
š Original message:On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:30:34AM +0000, Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Certain parts of the community have been selling bitcoins for unreasonably
> low prices. This has halted Bitcoin's valuation at $20k and even driven the
> price down below $15k! However, clearly Bitcoin is worth much more than
> that, and there is widespread support for higher prices.
>
> In light of this, I have written and implemented two BIPs: one to add a
> signed price field to Bitcoin transactions, and the other to softfork a
> minimum price of $50k USD/BTC a year from today.
I believe I've found a serious vulnerability in your proposal: there's no limit
on the maximum supply of USD.
--
https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 488 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20190331/22f5e18a/attachment.sig>
š Original message:On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:30:34AM +0000, Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Certain parts of the community have been selling bitcoins for unreasonably
> low prices. This has halted Bitcoin's valuation at $20k and even driven the
> price down below $15k! However, clearly Bitcoin is worth much more than
> that, and there is widespread support for higher prices.
>
> In light of this, I have written and implemented two BIPs: one to add a
> signed price field to Bitcoin transactions, and the other to softfork a
> minimum price of $50k USD/BTC a year from today.
I believe I've found a serious vulnerability in your proposal: there's no limit
on the maximum supply of USD.
--
https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 488 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20190331/22f5e18a/attachment.sig>