Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Paper Currency

From: Peter Todd <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 20:39:21 +0200

On 19 May 2014 20:20:40 CEST, Justus Ranvier <[email-masked]> 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.