But i dont understand your fear kjj of "stealing". How can it be stealing when bitcoins lay 99 years at an address? Do you await to have bitcoins 99 years at the same address from now? That cant happen in my opinion. So stealing cant happen too. If bitcoins are lying at an address that long its a pretty sure sign that they are abandoned.
And its not about taking them away... they vanish for the net. Its not someone who takes them out. The net says they are vanished because they are too old and they can be mined from a random miner then.
Stealing would imply a owner. Where should this owner be?
The owner that they would be stolen from is either my estate, or my heir. Or, if medical technology makes a decent leap forward in the next couple of decades, me.
You don't have to agree with me on any part of this. I'm just telling you that there have been many proposals to do exactly this, and (approximately) no one here is interested.
I too don't understand your fear. My suggestion was merely to keep all coins in circulation and is more based upon wishful thinking as opposed to actual implementation.
I stand by the concept though, like a house, if you are still living in it after 99 years(!!!) surely you would have renewed its lease. The analogy is relevant to bitcoin... that is, if coins have not been sent in 99 years, then the likelyhood of them still belonging to somebody alive are near zero. If you are not dead and you've not moved the coins in that long, then you have either forgotten about or lost them.
To keep the coins circulating, I don't see how redistribution would be unfair.