From: Eric Voskuil <eric@voskuil•org>
To: NxtChg <nxtchg@hush•com>, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>,
Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo•com>
Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>,
Libbitcoin <libbitcoin@lists•dyne.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Scaling Bitcoin conference micro-report
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 00:39:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55FD1122.5030107@voskuil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150919072714.D3349404B9@smtp.hushmail.com>
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On 09/19/2015 12:27 AM, NxtChg wrote:
>> This is extremely naive. At a minimum, getting popular/successful (and regulated) is the formula for regulatory capture.
>
> Let me give you an example.
>
> Suppose you are a regular guy, say Peter Todd, and you are faced with 10 policemen in anti-riot gear.
>
> You can fight them in two ways:
>
> 1. become stronger, so you could provide an adequate response, either by turning into Hulk or by getting another 30-50 Peter Todds.
Your vision of censorship resistance is to become such a strong central
authority that you can resist it in direct physical confrontation. If
you succeed at this, you are the threat.
> 2. lose some fat, learn a few parkour tricks and move around mostly by night behind dumpsters.
And your alternative is to lurk in dark corners.
The inability to see another option is the inability to understand what
Satoshi created.
e
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-19 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-16 21:32 Jeff Garzik
2015-09-16 21:51 ` Matt Corallo
2015-09-18 5:55 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-09-18 17:10 ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-18 17:28 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-18 20:06 ` Matt Corallo
2015-09-18 22:33 ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-19 16:03 ` cipher anthem
2015-09-19 20:43 ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-19 1:47 ` Peter Todd
2015-09-19 6:06 ` NxtChg
2015-09-19 6:56 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-09-19 7:27 ` NxtChg
2015-09-19 7:39 ` Eric Voskuil [this message]
2015-09-19 7:57 ` NxtChg
2015-09-19 8:52 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-09-19 13:32 ` NxtChg
2015-09-19 20:57 ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-19 21:53 ` phm
2015-09-20 1:26 ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-20 2:18 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-20 9:18 ` NxtChg
2015-09-20 9:25 ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-20 15:43 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-09-20 16:21 ` NxtChg
2015-09-20 16:34 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-20 20:23 ` Steven Pine
2015-09-20 20:54 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-20 21:33 ` s7r
2015-09-20 21:45 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-20 22:02 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-20 22:21 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-20 22:51 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-20 23:11 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-21 0:11 ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-21 5:04 ` Corey Haddad
2015-09-21 11:45 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-21 8:48 ` NxtChg
2015-09-20 21:10 ` NxtChg
2015-09-20 21:13 ` Steven Pine
2015-09-20 21:34 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-20 21:24 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-20 21:16 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-21 10:30 ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-18 22:15 ` [bitcoin-dev] Improving Blocksize Communication Through Markets Paul Sztorc
2015-09-20 11:41 ` Isidor Zeuner
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