@Zerglingman @11112011 haven't read the link but supply and demand imply that dormant coins do release their value to the market, it's deflationary pressure
@Zerglingman @11112011 precisely, check out some of willy woo's work, he does a lot of on chain analysis on this subject
@Zerglingman @11112011 people will always lose coins, don't think you need to put bells on a whistle
@Zerglingman @11112011 @runfox @skells the reason not to 'put money in motion' is to postpone gratification to save for bigger and more important things
@Zerglingman @11112011 @jeffcliff @runfox by all means go ahead, you're going to struggle to persuade those who prefer bitcoin
@Zerglingman @11112011 @runfox @skells why not just use freicoin? http://freico.in/
@Zerglingman @11112011 @runfox @skells we know what happens - we've tried this experiment before with freicoin. It was one of the first post-bitcoin cryptocurrency experiments
what happens is people migrate their day to day spending activity to a cryptocurrency that doesn't have demurrage
I guess that's just called a recession.
I was thinking a more direct approach to it. I like the idea that the amount of bitcoin in circulation cannot ever increase beyond the predetermined maximum, but as-is, it will slowly decrease over time, with no way to correct for that.