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Bitcoin question. I worry about lost coins. Over a long enough time the supply will shrink towards zero. Every sat that is lost is out of the supply forever. Does it make sense to return coins that haven’t moved in say 21 years back into the pool for future mining rewards. It wouldn’t have to change the issuance schedule necessarily. Any coins that were unspent for 21 years could be moved to the end of the stack and start being distributed after 2140 for example. Am I off base?

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The decimal can be moved. Also, new methods of retrieval will be used in time.

That idea to send coins into the future sounds like some spacechain proposal I heard. Something about using Bitcoin for other uses and part of the fee will be sent to a future block to incentivize future mining.

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