From: Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@gmail•com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>,
Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Working on social contracts (was: Paper Currency)
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 23:18:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537A753E.60200@localhost.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgQADU27NABcP1r52YTgDUy+PX7OZfT5H7XSsecjy1dmQg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/19/2014 11:07 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> I promise that if bad people show up with a sufficient pointy gun
> that I'll do whatever they tell me to do. I'll make bad proposals,
> submit backdoors, and argue with querulous folks on mailing lists,
> diverting them from real development and review work, all as
> commanded. Maybe I'll try to sneak out a warning of some kind,
> maybe... but with my life or my families or friends lives on the
> line— probably not.
>
> ... and I think that anyone who tells you otherwise probably just
> hasn't really thought it through. So what is the point of
> commitments like that? People change, people go crazy, people are
> coerced. Crap happens, justifications are made, life goes on— or so
> we hope.
I presume you're familiar with the concept of a warrant canary, so
presumably you'd also see why public statements such as I was
discussing would be similarly useful.
Social contracts make it more difficult to hide coercion, which serves
no one except the attackers.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-19 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-19 19:41 Gavin Andresen
2014-05-19 20:01 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-05-19 20:06 ` Gavin Andresen
2014-05-19 20:06 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-19 20:13 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-05-19 21:07 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-19 21:18 ` Justus Ranvier [this message]
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