This would be the default option in wallets yes. I don't think many whales would mind to pay $1 to send $100,000 or $1,000,000. When you're ok with the default fee, you don't go to the
Along the same lines, a softfork that I think we may see BTC adopt in the future are UTXO maintenance fees. This would reduce the input value of a utxo based on its age. I like this
Not exactly, demurrage is a flat percentage, but a utxo maintenance fee would disproportionately affect small utxos.
| idea a little better because it aligns the cost of utxo maintenance with the value of it. As it is now, miners bear all the cost of a large utxo set, while holders get all the value.
| BTC maxis wont like this, but i suspect they'll prefer it to inflation, which is their other long term option.
