Lightning nodes will pay the miners

also "demand" mean transactions

Miners are getting paid

Despite the coinbase halving miners always get paid more over time.

But what about Paper Bitcoin Summer!!

Hey, trust me, bro you ain't gotta worry. Bitcoin ain't feeling nothing. It's the future. It goes right along with AI. Trump knows that Elon knows it and I know it everybody else y'all y'all learn it.

I think it’s funny that some responses here seem to be an attempt to teach Matt Corallo about bitcoin.

I could see a time when most/many are using bitcoin as primarily a SOV with few onchain transactions. Lighting for low fee transactions is the primary MOE. Hash rate could fall considerably as miners unplug. Transaction finality can still be secure with a responsively resistant fee market - hash com...

The block subsidy is the runway. Plenty of runway left.

Stop it. No one has to pay the miners.

Eh I think you’ve got it backwards. The people who don’t value censorship-money will fail.

fact: this is one of the “crossing of the rubicon” moments for bitcoin’s success. not always linearly, but this is one of the continued surprises of bitcoin’s resilience and applied societal value

#Monero proves there’s a demand for censorship resistant money. The cliff #Bitcoin is heading towards is that it’s incredibly slow, expensive to actually use (only cheap during a paper Bitcoin summer when its main use case is speculation), and not censorship resistant.

Tail emission will pay the miners. Monero has a long term plan where Bitcoin was designed to get us going.

CBDCs fix this

imagine having concern for miners, and not the nodes and users. what the fuck is wrong with you devs?

It’s a 2 trillion dollar asset. It’s not failing. Printer isn’t turning off either. Time has shown it gravitates towards this safe haven, you have it backwards.

What if: eventually everyone that wants to transact with the blockchain has to have an up and running miner, and also a node. There could be something in the transaction that points to the existence of those that would not allow the transaction to process unless those were in place. It would certai...

This is the issue with PoW

I respectfully disagree with your opening statement. It contradicts itself. If there's not enough demand for fiat/currency which is censorship money - BTC should WIN. Not fail. Either fiat fails/BTC wins or fiat wins/BTC fails. When I see Blackrock moving into BTC, and the pet rock guru offering...

we only have 100 yrs to figure it out… cry harder!