From: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
To: prabhat <prabhatkr@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPS proposal for implementing AML-KYC in bitcoin
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:28:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABsx9T06Pot0QqZ9bbok6_FH5kyDh+-QV=fdUGma=cmr=iESsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALoZ_LHU7LDywjiNX53Z=5i4fkiLbRwBpCwpzTB0beWW=UHN8w@mail.gmail.com>
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Have you talked with anybody at the Bitcoin Foundation about this proposal?
As Chief Scientist of the Foundation, I am strongly opposed to any proposal
that puts the Foundation in a position of centralized authority, so this is
unacceptable: "The Bitcoin Foundation will act as fair play party and
enforcement body to control the misuse of vast financial powers which
bitcoin has."
The idea that a central organization can be trusted to keep secrets secure
is just fundamentally wrong. In the very recent past we have seen
government organizations fail in that task (the NSA, the OPM) and we see
commercial organizations that SHOULD be highly motivated to do a good job
also fail (e.g. the Ashley Madison leak).
Even if it were technically possible, I would be opposed because
decentralization is a bedrock principle of Bitcoin.
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Gavin Andresen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-27 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-27 8:10 prabhat
2015-08-27 8:15 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-27 9:33 ` s7r
2015-08-27 9:04 ` Ahmed Zsales
[not found] ` <CAC0TF==iEPzMpjcGO+ukV6rVkM-4yH3jX0Obu4Aint1eWzK5bQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-08-27 12:06 ` prabhat
2015-08-27 12:14 ` jl2012
2015-08-27 12:19 ` prabhat
2015-08-27 13:28 ` Gavin Andresen [this message]
2015-08-27 13:39 ` prabhat
2015-08-27 13:48 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-27 16:06 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-08-27 17:33 ` prabhat
2015-08-27 18:55 ` Oliver Petruzel
2015-08-27 18:56 ` prabhat
2015-08-27 19:42 ` Dave Scotese
2015-08-27 14:02 ` Chris Pacia
2015-08-27 16:02 ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2015-08-28 2:09 ` odinn
2015-08-28 2:00 ` odinn
2015-08-28 2:17 ` Yifu Guo
2015-08-30 12:47 ` s7r
2015-08-30 15:16 ` Vinyas
2015-08-30 15:56 ` [bitcoin-dev] [META] Mailing list etiquette " jl2012
2015-08-31 11:28 ` [bitcoin-dev] " prabhat
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