Dashjr Proposes Temporary Rules to Tackle Profit-Motivated Miners

Luke Dashjr, a prominent Bitcoin developer and CEO of CONVOY Mining, has proposed two temporary reward rule ideas to address what he calls 'profit-motivated miners' that are undermining the network's decentralization.

The proposals, shared on X on September 10, would either extend the wait before mined bitcoin can be spent or set the block subsidy to zero for one month. Dashjr emphasized that both ideas are temporary and aimed at a specific group of hashers who only submit work under Stratum v1 and never build their own block templates.

The first idea would stretch the lock from 100 blocks to 4,375 blocks, equivalent to about a month, while the second would leave the maturity rule in place but set the block subsidy to zero for one month. This would mean miners would only receive transaction fees during that window.