Me being oblivious to much of the inner workings of the Bitcoin protocol, someone else suggested that doing a "hard wired" transfer of the contents of the wallets being locked up in Gox should be possible through a wallet update if it reaches a 51% consensus amongst miners.
This is a technical subforum, so my question is not about short-circuiting the legal system or debating if this is a purist libaritarian thing to do.
Long term this will show resilience amongst Bitcoiner's as a self governing community, and in some way comparable to correction on the hard fork a while back, where consensus was reached quickly and an update was implemented to bring the network back in sync.
Short term speculators that think this will have a negative effect on price, think again. If we get a reputation as a democratic consensus driven payment system also, more will trust Bitcoin, and that will have a positive effect on price. Think of it like the dye bomb system implemented in banks.
In effect the consensus principle would act as a global Bitcoin banking authority in cases like that.
The wallets in question would be announced beforehand and anyone claiming ownership other than the curators would have a possibility to protest the suggestion.
So my question,: Is it possible to delete a known wallet and make it's balance appear in a new one with not lost keys (under the pretence that coins locked out in Gox are proper identified)?
Has the Foundation taken a position on that question, to anyone’s knowledge?
