From: Pindar Wong <pindar.wong@gmail•com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
Cc: Constance Choi <constance.choi@gmail•com>,
Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>,
Primavera De Filippi <pdefilippi@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] questions about bitcoin-XT code fork & non-consensus hard-fork
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:55:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM7BtUr1zmw_Jmyn8ULZ=Jb-pkAwUwvBK68UWmzeJH3kAmYEhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150616133305.GA30988@muck>
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 08:33:31PM +0800, Pindar Wong wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:03 AM, Adam Back <adam@cypherspace•org> wrote:
> > Dear Adam, All:
> >
> > At the community's convenience, it would be an honour to arrange an
> initial
> > open summit to meet with representatives of the Chinese miners in Hong
> Kong
> > (UTC+8) to facilitate a better understand between the different
> > stakeholders of the Bitcoin ecosystem on this important issue. This
> could
> > be arranged for this October, or earlier, if deemed necessary.
>
> Great!
>
> FWIW there Constance Choi and Primavera De Filippi (CC'd) are holding a
> blockchain-tech conference October 14th-15th in Hong Kong as well;
> coordinating your summit with that conference could be useful.
>
> http://blockchainworkshops.org/
>
> This workshop series has been attracting audiences of people looking to
> use blockchain tech in general; many of these use-cases will likely
> involve the Bitcoin blockchain in unpredictable ways. Importantly, these
> ways can drive demand significantly beyond our current assumptions based
> on most demand being consumer-merchant transactions.
>
> In addition, many of the attendees have significant experience with
> regulatory issues and interacting with governments on regulation of
> blockchain tech. Bitcoin faces existential risks to its existence by
> these regulation efforts, which include things like efforts to setup
> industry wide Anti-Money-Laundering/Know-Your-Customer programs,
> including programs that would tie on-chain transactions to identity
> information. Any blocksize discussion needs to be informed by these
> potential threats to usage of the technology, as well as challenges to
> using scaling solutions.
>
> > Remote online participation would be welcome from those who might not be
> > able to attend in person.
> >
> > However, it is hoped that such a meeting would be primarily document
> > driven to facilitate orderly translation, discussion and decision.
>
> Agreed. Pieter Wuille's recent work is a great example of the kind of
> science-driven investigations that need to be done - and haven't been
> done very much - to get us some hard data to make decisions on.
>
Thank you very much Peter for pointing this out! That is very kind of you.
It would be great to work with Constance Choi, Primavera De Filippi, your
goodself and others to make this happen.
As you may know, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority considers bitcoin a
virtual 'commodity' and not a currency per se.
Regards,
p.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-16 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-15 0:04 Adam Back
2015-06-15 9:56 ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-15 18:03 ` Adam Back
2015-06-15 20:55 ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-15 21:56 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-06-15 22:17 ` Faiz Khan
2015-06-15 22:56 ` Brian Hoffman
2015-06-15 23:05 ` [Bitcoin-development] questions about bitcoin-XT code fork &non-consensus hard-fork Raystonn .
2015-06-16 0:08 ` [Bitcoin-development] questions about bitcoin-XT code fork & non-consensus hard-fork Aaron Voisine
2015-06-16 0:41 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-16 1:17 ` Alex Morcos
2015-06-16 4:00 ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-17 3:54 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-18 15:23 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-16 11:29 ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-16 11:20 ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-16 12:33 ` Pindar Wong
2015-06-16 13:33 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-16 13:55 ` Pindar Wong [this message]
2015-06-17 3:59 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-25 6:43 ` [bitcoin-dev] " Pindar Wong
2015-06-26 19:30 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-15 22:54 ` odinn
2015-06-16 1:20 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-16 5:18 ` Venzen
2015-06-16 6:09 ` Marcel Jamin
2015-06-16 9:21 ` Benjamin
2015-06-16 11:01 ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-17 3:52 ` Troy Benjegerdes
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