- Allow unspendable dust to evaporate and return to the miners.
But surely by the time we get to the point where adoption means each satoshi is worth say $1 or 1 cent then this dust will no longer be dust so why shoud it be unspendable?
Of course the bigger issue will be the 1000's of coins that were mined and have subsequently been lost, e.g. 7500 coins in a landfill site in Wales (perhaps that will become the equivalent of a gold mine with only one tiny bit of resource at the bottom).
You can send money to accounts which are provably unspendable. It's a public key that provably has no private key. Some people send satoshis to these addresses to store data in the block chain
But surely by the time we get to the point where adoption means each satoshi is worth say $1 or 1 cent then this dust will no longer be dust so why shoud it be unspendable?
Of course the bigger issue will be the 1000's of coins that were mined and have subsequently been lost, e.g. 7500 coins in a landfill site in Wales (perhaps that will become the equivalent of a gold mine with only one tiny bit of resource at the bottom).