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From: Eric Voskuil <eric@voskuil•org>
To: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink•com>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Three hardfork-related BIPs
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 11:37:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C206BDC-CCAB-4F4B-9356-6FA7652E467A@voskuil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <583ef2d2-8315-da9f-7815-768cb4ccb515@thinlink.com>


> On Jan 29, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Tom Harding via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/28/2017 10:29 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> a world of nodes in large datacenters is a world where it's very easy
>> to force the few Bitcoin nodes remaining to follow AML/KYC rules
> 
> If that's true, why haven't we already seen AML/KYC required of mining
> pools?  That would be comparatively trivial.

It is true, there is no question. The fact that an attack does not appear to have occurred does not mean that the vulnerability exists. It is as you say a trivial exploit, which means it will happen when the economic incentive is great enough. Analogous attacks on other points of centralization are already well underway.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-29 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-27  1:06 Luke Dashjr
     [not found] ` <CAAy62_L-mLhokVy4_WeLBVnxM0Y76dtFBaaDrRvQozxw=J1Ctw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <CAAy62_+1OjF3V5g4wpOyW0KtNGodddJu_cxOfG-f+8LB7D=rPA@mail.gmail.com>
2017-01-27  3:04     ` Andrew Johnson
2017-01-27  4:14       ` Luke Dashjr
     [not found]         ` <CAAy62_LHtrx7k73kznMpPvheA--0T9YiHkjHArf2KK0Qt+ViUg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-01-27  6:13           ` Andrew Johnson
     [not found]             ` <CAMZUoKnxqxvPQehdWo1ZaHB-1-od4cHvJRDTmF5x7ty1CdLbUQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]               ` <CAMZUoK=eb3jgA7Rwt38tvZt0tYk7gRVPc_2=HUWg1L_vaD93uw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-01-27 20:34                 ` Russell O'Connor
2017-01-27 20:47                   ` Greg Sanders
2017-01-27 21:28                     ` Christian Decker
2017-01-27 23:53                       ` Andrew Johnson
2017-01-28  4:03                         ` Luke Dashjr
2017-01-28 10:36                           ` Natanael
2017-01-28 18:29                             ` Peter Todd
2017-01-29 19:15                               ` Tom Harding
2017-01-29 19:37                                 ` Eric Voskuil [this message]
2017-02-11 15:26                                   ` Staf Verhaegen
2017-01-29 19:39                                 ` David Vorick
2017-01-28 19:43                             ` Luke Dashjr
2017-01-28 21:54                               ` Peter Todd
2017-02-06 16:24                           ` mbtc-dev
2017-02-07 20:32                             ` Eric Voskuil
2017-01-28 18:22                         ` Peter Todd
2017-01-27  4:21 ` Johnson Lau
2017-01-27 18:54 ` t. khan
2017-01-27 12:12 Daniele Pinna

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