Bitcoin能否忠于密码朋克的理想？这是彼得·托德的建议
关于Bitcoin是否忠实于其密码朋克原则的争论已经升温，批评者声称其去中心化和反控制的潜力正在消失。与此同时，该货币的开发商之一彼得·托德（Peter Todd）建议将“尾部排放”作为替代方案。
密码朋克运动的基础强调tron的密码学和隐私工具来保护个人权利并促进去中心化社会。它将加密中的“密码”一词与象征叛逆、DIY精神的“朋克”结合在一起。
这一运动在塑造互联网，特别是区块链和加密货币等关键技术方面发挥了重要作用。Bitcoin的诞生也让密码朋克运动更接近其构建数字隐私、安全和独立技术的目标。
近日，贝莱德对 BTC 固定的 2100 万供应量上限 提出质疑。其中包含免责声明：“不能保证Bitcoin2100 万的供应上限不会改变。”
Micro Strategy 的首席执行官、比特币最大持有者之一 Micheal Saylor 也转发了该视频。
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Michael Saylor，当今Bitcoin领域最有影响力的人物，他发布了一段来自贝莱德的视频，并附上了一条非常有趣的免责声明：
“不能保证bitcoin2100万的供应上限不会改变。”
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Doubts have poured in over whether Bitcoin’s fixed supply remains as inviolable as one thought after BlackRock issued a disclaimer. Serious questions have been raised over the cryptocurrency’s capacity to bear long to its ethos due to the growing capitalist influence of corporate players.
Peter Todd suggested ‘tail emission’ for Bitcoin back in 2022
Another critic on X, @sebp888, criticized renowned Bitcoin developers, including Adam Back and Peter Todd, for remaining silent about these issues. He argued that Bitcoin’s community should fight back against the perceived growing corporate domination.
Peter Todd retweeted the tweet with a screenshot showing a community note under Sebastian’s post. The note pointed toward Todd’s article from 2022: “Surprisingly, Tail Emission Is Not Inflationary.”
In this piece, Todd contemplated the threats Bitcoin could face when it ditches block rewards in favor of transaction fees for miners’ incentives. This could happen after all of the Bitcoin supply has been mined.
He warned that such a shift could be unstable. “To date, no proof-of-work currency has ever operated solely on transaction fees, and academic analysis has found that in this condition, block generation is unstable.”
He suggested an alternative like Monero’s implementation of tail emission, in which miners receive a fixed, small reward per block forever.
Lost Bitcoins naturally balance out the continuously emitted coins
According to Todd, this model doesn’t cause inflation but rather creates a stable supply. He also said lost coins naturally balance out the continuously emitted coins. Thus, in the long run, coins are created just as fast as they are lost,” Todd said.
He explained it through mathematical modeling by which he proved that fixed rewards in combination with natural coin loss yield a stable monetary system.
One user on X, @LibreHans, doubted Peter Todd’s prediction. He said, “You think you can predict the future? How could anybody take you seriously?” Todd replied rather sarcastically that losing coins can only “magically” stop in the future.
However, his article also points out how difficult it would be to implement such changes on Bitcoin. Todd noted that a hard fork to enable it would likely mean not winning consensus from the large and diverse Bitcoin community.
“While Monero was able to get sufficiently broad consensus in the community to implement tail emission, it’s unclear at best if it would ever be possible to achieve that for the much larger Bitcoin,” he wrote.
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