Topic: Mike Hearn, Foundation's Law & Policy Chair, is pushing blacklists right now - page 2. (Read 84386 times)

Mike really should be ashamed of himself

As a monitory system like that is less more or less inevitable and, initially, stands a good chance of being beneficial to a society. Unfortunately it doesn't follow societies natural selection of leadership, power corrupts but society will change its leadership as conditions require. Money doesn't allow for change of leadership, royal families all through history have shown the extremes of powers corruption and for a large part the power of money delayed the necessary change of leadership. In just the same way as we're beyond the threat of full blown war (mutually assured destruction) we're also coming to a point where we're beyond the ability to change leadership due to the power of money.

As a monitory system like that

Well if they do manage to realize this I hope everyone moves away from bitcoin to some other cryptocurrency.

Bingo!

Good to see you all are starting to understand finally.


Yes and they will collect capital gains and/or VAT taxes on Bitcoin appreciation as an investment even if you are trying to use it as a currency (medium-of-exchange), thus it can not be a currency.

But developers of altcoins will rise to the opportunity and create truly anonymous coins. Anoncoin isn't it. Bitcoin isn't it. I will soon publish a whitepaper to explain why.

In short, you need to understand that Chaum mix-nets (e.g. Tor) are vulnerable to timing attacks, and even honeypotting given only 3 hops. They NSA and spy agencies in each country are likely still able to track your identity much of the time. And VPNs are likely all controlled/backdoored/hacked/rooted by the NSA. And exchanging through mixers and altcoins does not obscure your IP address no matter how many times you do it. Also even across these proxies, your identity is tracked in other ways such as browser plugins trojans, cookies, patterns of internet uses such as favored search terms, facbook et al tracking the way you type, etc..

Even if you are one of the lucky few who manages to keep your anonymity assured by careful mix of the above methods, the point is the majority will not. And thus it is very simple for the government to make your anonymous coins practically unspendable and useless. The government simply sends a tax bill and put criminal liability for all activity on a coin since mining until present, until those non-anonymous coins holders (or former holders) can provide the identity of whom they bought from and sold to.

Thus all users will become afraid and only accept coins and sell coins from those who provide their complete identity. Thus only a coin with widespread assured anonymity would be able to become a currency and remain immune to government control.

So clearly you can see that you never will have anonymity with Bitcoin nor any current altcoins. Thus Bitcoin and the current altcoins can never be currencies (unless the governments take them over somehow and make them legal tender), and the government will essentially control them.

Note one means anonymity I proposed thus far are a new way to do physical crypto-coins.

urgh. The speculative bubble argument and the scalability argument. This guy even says "fixing" scalability would require a degree of centralization. That's a strong claim and it's off-topic to discuss here. For a potential solution that doesn't break decentralization see this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-paper-accelerating-bitcoins-trasaction-processing-359582.

I watched that last week and got thinking about the problem, I can think of a fiew ways to solve it* so it is back to rose coloured glasses for me. (I meant to post it to reddit but forgot. It is worthy of discussion)  

* 1) a business idea all rights reserved
   2) a number of fundamental protocol changes
   3) an unprotected free market solution.

I've had many many experiences with police. 80% are just doing a job to pay rent (so was Hitler's SS) and 20% love their job, going way beyond the call of duty to enforce laws and get at 'bad types' they don't like (sometimes bending or breaking the law). They break into houses, arrest people for assault, beat people up (off camera), follow and harass you, ... they are not all good people and I don't support their work which is mostly being a pawn of powerful interests that collaborate with wealthy groups to fuck you.

Here's 3 PRISM slides from the NSA:







I don't know what more kind of proof people need that the police are corrupt, and we don't need to help make their work easier with applying law to bitcoin (in their own interpreted way).

you know the blacklist in the UK which was originally only for child porn and now blocks 'hate speech', copyright infringement, 'bad porn' and the pirate bay was originally formed as a consensus amongst ISPs after the metropolitan police put pressure on Demon internet. the same steps are now happening with bitcoin and it's looking semi-legit with people justifying it. but even a cursory look at internet history will show you what the slippery slope this is and we must fight hard against this tooth and nail. not later, but now. now is the time to fight for your freedom, not later once everything is compromised.

Well speaking of it being a lost cause... any response to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfeA94BedQI

Well speaking of it being a lost cause... any response to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfeA94BedQI

Mike Hearn shouldnt be on the foundation, Edward Snowden should be.

Everybody with their head screwed on right does too.

I wish I could boycott the USA.

He just wants to be at the head of it all. Like he doesn't get that what people want is decentralized and he just won't give up on centralized. If someone wants a centralized one, it already exists. Don't ruin this one. Use what you have already, or do you want to break this too.