If energy is free the cost of a transaction could be reduced to an extent that dust becomes spendable. If the dollar hits sat parity +-10 years from now miners would happily accept 50 sats to move a thousand. Many of those wallets might be lost after being emptied and keys discarded in the pre segwit days.
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It’s not a function of energy cost, it’s a function of block space demand.
Understood, I happen to think that countries and institutions with large trade deals will use secondary layers to settle back and forth and that there will still be times of the year when the network demand slows down sufficiently to freely move some of those dusty sats.
I doubt it but we’ll see.
You are probably right. I just always want to add ideas to the fray. Contrarian thoughts help improve existing theories.
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