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Re:Crypto lobbying is going ballistic by denton-scratch on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:24AM (#29483488)
The blockchain is an append-only structure; it can only grow. The longer the blockchain, the more it costs to process a transaction.

So if people divest from bitcoin and the price drops, that won't make bitcoin more suitable for buying stuff. Nothing can make the blockchain shorter.

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Re:Crypto lobbying is going ballistic by uh_uh on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @07:18AM (#29483865)
You can truncate it at any point you want. If in 2060, the community collectively decides that the chain is too long, they can just decide that a block from 2040 is the new genesis block.
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Re:Crypto lobbying is going ballistic by denton-scratch on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:38AM (#29495897)
By 2060 I'll have been dead for about 15 years.
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