Supply, subsidy and halvings
The 21 million cap, the halving schedule, tail emission proposals, and what to call the units. Short threads, usually, because the answer on this list has always been the same.
57 threads and 790 messages, 24 Jun 2012 to 7 Sep 2026.
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BIPs
The threads, in order
Listed by the date of each thread's first message.
2012 2 threads
- Enforcing inflation rules for SPV clients Mike Hearn6 messages
- Chain dust mitigation: Demurrage based Chain Vacuuming Michael Gronager19 messages
2013 5 threads
- Service bits for pruned nodes Pieter Wuille34 messages
- 28 messages
- moving the default display to mbtc Melvin Carvalho112 messages
- Monetary Authority for Bitcoin Ryan Carboni15 messages
- 3 messages
2014 6 threads
- Base-32 error correction coding Mark Friedenbach2 messages
- Finite monetary supply for Bitcoin Pieter Wuille27 messages
- "bits": Unit of account Mike Gehl56 messages
- 9 messages
- The Bitcoin Freeze on Transaction Attack (FRONT) Sergio Lerner14 messages
- death by halving Alex Mizrahi29 messages
2015 7 threads
- Version bits proposal Pieter Wuille14 messages
- Version bits with timeout and delay. Rusty Russell26 messages
- 2 messages
- Masked bits and isStandard Dave Scotese1 message
- 15 messages
- BIP 9 style version bits for txns Vincent Truong4 messages
- 2 messages
2016 7 threads
- Fee smoothing Luzius Meisser5 messages
- Hardfork to fix difficulty drop algorithm Luke Dashjr31 messages
- segwit subsidy and multi-sender (coinjoin) transactions Kristov Atlas2 messages
- segwit subsidy and multi-sender (coinjoin) transactions Gregory Maxwell1 message
- Reasons to add sync flags to Bitcoin Ethan Scruples6 messages
- Proposal: Hard fork opt-out bits Tom Harding1 message
- 20 messages
2017 11 threads
- 9 messages
- 6 messages
- 1 message
- BIP proposal: NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED service bits Jonas Schnelli7 messages
- 1 message
- idea post: trimming and demurrage Patrick Sharp7 messages
- BIP159 - NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED service bits, extendability Sjors Provoost4 messages
- BIP - Dead Man's Switch Teweldemedhin Aberra9 messages
- 11 messages
- Total fees have almost crossed the block reward Melvin Carvalho13 messages
- BIP 176: Utilization of bits denomination millibitcoin1 message
2018 3 threads
- Some thoughts on removing timestamps in PoW Tao Effect6 messages
- 4 messages
- 1 message
2019 1 thread
2021 1 thread
- Reducing block reward via soft fork James Lu15 messages
2022 4 threads
- One testnet to rule them all vjudeu4 messages
- 24 messages
- Surprisingly, Tail Emission Is Not Inflationary Eric Voskuil32 messages
- 16 messages
2023 3 threads
- BIP proposal: Fee-redistribution contracts Rastislav Budinsky4 messages
- Minimum fees Giuseppe B8 messages
- ossification and misaligned incentive concerns Erik Aronesty8 messages
2024 2 threads
- HODL Tax Proposal Richard Greaser10 messages
- Redefinition of the Bitcoin Unit to the Base Denomination Bitcoin Error Log3 messages
2025 2 threads
- Unbreaking testnet4 Antoine Poinsot35 messages
- Proof-of-Activity Reclamation (PoAR) Donald Dienst8 messages
2026 3 threads
- 24 bits for nVersion nonce space instead of 16 Matt Corallo6 messages
- What if we let Quantum Hunters get Bitcoin rewards ? Amon BAZONGO7 messages
- Bitcoin After Block Rewards: preventing miner deviation as the block rewards approaches zero Junhyuk Jun Lee2 messages