... What do you think doing that will accomplish? Having some ~no difficulty odd block won't contribute to the security, and could be found basically instantly.
Currently miners prefer less tx because they want to be fast on mining the reward and if the price increases more this will be more obvious. Miners currently are benevolent. A lot of txs are below their costs I think. (In the sense that they are risking the block not to be propagated fast and it is better for them to have 1 tx and get the reward according to some analysis by Michael Gronager I think)
Also, you are describing a future bitcoin state when fee gets low enough. When reward gets low enough I hope they dont act like that and still process txs.
Worse, because they have no reward except in that they gate finding another block with a reward, fast mining consolidations would be incentivized to find them fast and keep them secret unless they find the next w/ reward block.
You might be right but in theory given a low enough difficulty they will want the fees and the fees will contribute to the security. For example if the fees are 1/100 of the reward and the difficulty might be 1/1000000 of the reward it can make sense for them! The difficulty will adjust to a value that people will want to get the fees. The fees market has a difficulty level that is economical to process them. Pegging the difficulty level to reward doesnt make sense for tx processing for me.
This really feels like development via oracle, where you fling poop at me until you find something I can't deflect.
lol
This is epic!!
If you want to try out random speculative ideas, why not create an altcoin? The market is a better oracle than I am.
Makes sense and it should be first on an alt-chain. I am not sure who will care since the altcoins dont have the tx volume of bitcoin and they might want to implement other features that will attract people. They will wait for bitcoin devs to solve this problem I guess.