stompix
At some point I don't really like that news but on another hand, it's a good lesson for some people - don't hold your money on exchanges. This exchange, roughly, tells you that.
But on another hand, one idea came to my mind after seeing this thread.
We all know that a lot of bitcoins are lost and losing very often. It would be nice to have a network where people with inactive accounts would lose coins and then they would become miserable. For example, imagine: User A has 10 bitcoin and lost his wallet, this coins are lost forever, but... Every year 1/5 of the original amount (that is calculated by what was the amount after 364 days inactivity) cuts, e.i. 2 bitcoin has been cut. Next year, we would have 2/5 of original amount cut if wallet is still inactive and no one has made any transaction via it and finally after 5 year, this wallet is left without coins and these 10 bitcoins are reminded by miners.
Idk, maybe someone already had this idea but still just writing.
Yeah, a lot of people have had this idea
especially with the "threat" of Satoshi's coins ever hitting an exchange and crashing the price or with the other "threat" that we will run out of bitcoins. Different forms, from burning them to redistributing them, all of them basically match your idea of not moved coins for x time getting lost for good.
The problem with it is that it will force people to move their coins, imagine a million more transactions so you don't love your coins, it will make people more reticent to buy bitcoins, what if your get in an accident, in prison, in whatever and you can't move your coins and you lose your money. It will simply add one more inconvenience to newbies who already have a hard time using their own wallet and not an exchange.
Do I have to add that in all the threads the feedback was overwhelming negative?