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rationalisttoday at 2:52 PM1 replyview on HN

Once there are no more block rewards, Bitcoin will only rely on fees to incentivize miners.

So either fees will be expensive, or there won't be miners securing the blockchain.


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sphtoday at 2:55 PM

Gotcha. Well it's by design, as Satoshi believed it not to be a problem. Only time will tell.