From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@gmail•com>,
bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Paper Currency
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 20:39:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16b400d8-7f1f-408a-9193-2fdde7ed393e@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <537A4B78.7060804@localhost.local>
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On 19 May 2014 20:20:40 CEST, Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@gmail•com> wrote:
>You and Gavin could do a lot better by working on a Bitcoin social
>contract - a promise of what features will *never* be added (or taken
>away) from Bitcoin, because despite what you say it's not acceptable
>to propose anything at all.
>
>Maybe start with things like how the Bitcoin protocol will never be
>changed to allow for confiscation of funds, regardless of who might
>demand such a feature.
Might be worth looking into the recent RFC 7258: Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack for some guidance on how to write such a social contract.
Re: Gavin, note the language in the foundation bylaws:
Section 2.2 The Corporation shall promote and protect both the decentralized, distributed and private nature of the Bitcoin distributed-digital currency and transaction system as well as individual choice, participation and financial privacy when using such systems.
You might want to do a pull-req to add fungibility and rejection of blacklists to that list; note Adam Back's comments on how fungibility and privacy are inherently linked.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-19 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-17 15:31 Jerry Felix
2014-05-17 15:45 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-05-17 16:07 ` Chris Pacia
2014-05-17 16:40 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-18 11:47 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-18 12:14 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-18 12:51 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 13:06 ` Brooks Boyd
2014-05-19 13:50 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-18 13:50 ` Natanael
2014-05-18 18:47 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-18 20:10 ` Natanael
2014-05-19 10:26 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 12:55 ` Sergio Lerner
2014-05-19 13:34 ` Martin Sip
2014-05-19 13:53 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 14:47 ` [Bitcoin-development] patents Adam Back
2014-05-19 15:09 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-19 18:27 ` Peter Todd
2014-05-19 18:40 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-19 18:43 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-19 18:46 ` Peter Todd
2014-05-19 18:49 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-19 22:15 ` Bernd Jendrissek
2014-05-20 10:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-18 13:50 ` [Bitcoin-development] Paper Currency Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-19 12:21 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-19 18:20 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-05-19 18:39 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2014-05-18 19:54 Jerry Felix
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