It's not about people dumping the coins. That's fine. I welcome that. Cheaper for me to buy. The problem is miners who don't care about decentralization, come for the quick sats and don't even set up their own Datum gateway. They end up using stratum instead of Datum. That gives power to the mining pools, which is one of the reasons for forking away from suitcoin. So by making it less attractive to mine (making them wait before they can sell their sats), you have a shot at driving away those actors, and keeping those who care about the long-term health of the network.

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Thanks for your inputs. I wonder if delaying the UTXO from the coinbase of a new block helps with mining decentralization though. Let's assume the delay increases to a month. Well then, the AlphaPool with ~30% of the hash rate of #blake2b will continue doing what it is doing, just get their sats with a delay, dump the coin if needed. In any case, a miner dumping too much of their coin, is never an interesting use case. It would mean that the price could dump also, meaning mining in and of itself is not a lucrative business anymore. Then you have to shutdown your miners. Difficulty adjustment kicks in again. This whole procedure has been working fine for years. On a general note, I don't think miners of #BTC on #blake2b are interested in sabotaging the network. If that is the case, they will only "pump and dump" it once, so to speak. Maybe that is their goal? I don't know. I believe making mining less attractive has always been a built in feature with a combination of coinbase UTXO delay + difficulty adjustment + #bitcoin price.