Couldn’t we just prune the old spent transactions in the blockchain and
   keep the chain and dB smaller

   On Jul 3, 2018 at 6:58 AM, <[1]juan> wrote:

On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 17:50:02 -0700
Steven Schear <schear.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess for you the article is a TL;DR. There was NOT a suggestion of
> simple confiscation. All one had to do, to prevent "reclamation", is to
> periodically move assets on the blockchain.


        I know. So if you for whatever reason fail to move your funds they are s
tolen. Doesn't seem like a sensible protocol. Also, moving funds every a fixed p
eriod seems like a good way to make tracking easier?

        Last but not least what do you gain by forcing people to create new UTXO
s from existing UTXOs?? Most of the data in the ledger is old spent transactions
 which are mostly useless*, except they are needed to make sure the supply hasn'
t been tampered with.


*except for spying that is.

References

   1. mailto:juan.g71@gmail.com