and "them" is not a single entity or even small number of entities. miners compete for block rewards and every transaction with a fee contributes to the profit - whatever malicious miners choose to leave out will be included by non-malicious miners making them more profitable.
calling miners middlemen when they would only have actual control over which transactions appear on the chain if majority of miners colluded (destroying the value proposition of bitcoin in the process) is very disingenuous.
> talk about inflation and QE as theft from their pockets. The block reward is a fee extracted from the ecosystem in the same way.
i don't even... QE and other fiscal measures are short term decisions made by bunch of powerful humans behind closed doors. Bitcoin emission schedule was decided ten years ago and has virtually zero chance of being changed without destroying the project and it's value. you must be trolling right now if you say you don't see the difference.
as for why is there bitcoin emission schedule at all - because that's probably the most fair process of distributing bitcoin.
> So yeah, you did, you said it was monetary value expressed as pure energy, which is meaningless
either you start reading and quoting me correctly or this discussion is over, i'm done with your manipulative tactics.
He wasn't quoted incorrectly, the part within quotation marks is verbatim from keymone.
why would lie about such trivially verifiable thing?
The part between quotation marks, also known as "quoting", was taken word for word from your original comment.
Not really. Who else was it going to be, it's not like I'm the first to point this out.
> miners don't control who can transact with whom
Of course they do. It's up to them which transactions to include in a block.
> transaction fees are still orders of magnitude lower than the actual flat block reward
People who like bitcoin like to talk about inflation and QE as theft from their pockets. The block reward is a fee extracted from the ecosystem in the same way.
> bitcoin is not pure energy and i never claimed it was
"it's the first time in history we've been able to express and implement monetary value and security thereof in terms of pure energy"
So yeah, you did, you said it was monetary value expressed as pure energy, which is meaningless. It's not a measure of joules, and it's not the hashing which gives it value. Quite the opposite - the speculative value is what attracts the hashpower.