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by itsdsmurrell 1858 days ago
cough Bitcoin Cash cough

Increasing the blocksize was always Satoshi's plan:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15366#msg153...

This means that when the coinbase rewards run out, the fees pay for the mining. Small fees, keeping the network useful, for billions of transactions (bandwidth and storage costs decrease according to Moore's law). With this final state, individual on-chain transactions would not take much energy at all.