Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Auto-generated miner backbone

From: Peter Todd <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 23:39:05 -0500

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:14:37PM -0800, Gustaw Wieczorek wrote:
> Mike Hearn wrote:
> 
> > how about if we wrote code to automatically build a miner backbone
> 
> Yeah, let's build a backbone, or a cloud, and then we could have Google run it!
> 
> Come on, Mike, your conflict-of-interest as an employee is hanging out in the open, flapping in the breeze here...  Don't you think it's a bit obvious for somebody in your position to advocate centralization of infrastructure, especially when it comes to bitcoin?
> 
> 
> On the other hand, I guess your blind trust in IP addresses as a solid foundation for security is why you were so shocked when the NSA hacked your "backbone".

Go away.

Mike specifically mentioned the idea of using Tor addresses, which are
authenticated. In addition this mechanism to create a backbone
*automatically* is exactly as decentralized as Bitcoin mining itself is.
It has nothing to do with Google.

I suggested the mechanism myself for slightly different reasons, and if
you know me, you'd know I'm the first to jump on anyone pushing
centralization.

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