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Topic: Staff from PBC suggests taking control of bitcoin network. - page 6. (Read 11529 times)

legendary
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Wow, this is really interesting.
sr. member
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Section 6. Recommendations
1. The government and central bank should acknowledge the existence of Bitcoin and deal with it proactively.  Using the top-notch supercomputers at its disposal and using state power to ensure a monopoly on mining power, the central bank could acquire the vast majority of bitcoins.
2. The central bank should set up a Bitcoin bank and an official Bitcoin exchange and become the middleman in Chinese Bitcoin transactions to eliminate Bitcoin's relative anonymity and ensure that Bitcoin commerce can be regulated.
3. The government should push for international acceptance of a Bitcoin-backed currency, establishing a non-sovereign monetary system, to challenge the supremacy of the US dollar and to make the international financial system more harmonious and stable.

Delusional rantings of communists don't concern me.  They think they can control it like they think they control everything else.  Yawn...
sr. member
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Crypt'n Since 2011
Why all the gloom and doom. Bitcoin will only get stronger the more it is promoted even by a "evil" government such as the Chinese is.  This could be the catalyst that puts the US behind.  Besides the few ramblings of some ludacris reps 6 months ago, there has been absolutely no talk of Bitcoin regarding US economy with in the current government reps. They should be looking how this plays within our current economy before China gets the drop on us again.  China:Stealing US/World's technology since 1976 and proud of it!
legendary
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I advocate the Zeitgeist Movement & Venus Project.
As with any monetary system, greed, false authority and abuse are encouraged. Luckily, bitcoin makes it more difficult to perform, but the incentive is there.
newbie
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Let's put this in clearer English!  I hate it when google translate's crappy output makes me read more slowly. Tongue

Section 6. Recommendations
1. The government and central bank should acknowledge the existence of Bitcoin and deal with it proactively.  Using the top-notch supercomputers at its disposal and using state power to ensure a monopoly on mining power, the central bank could acquire the vast majority of bitcoins.
2. The central bank should set up a Bitcoin bank and an official Bitcoin exchange and become the middleman in Chinese Bitcoin transactions to eliminate Bitcoin's relative anonymity and ensure that Bitcoin commerce can be regulated.
3. The government should push for international acceptance of a Bitcoin-backed currency, establishing a non-sovereign monetary system, to challenge the supremacy of the US dollar and to make the international financial system more harmonious and stable.

Thanks for the clarification.

So they want to become the largest miner and control the bitcoin exchange/banking industry within China to deanonymize it.  This precedent may be followed by other countries, and we'll quickly come to a vastly more traceable system than we have today.  Sure, current bitcoiners all get rich, but the governments won't hurt one bit.  Yes, there will be winners and losers in the bitrush, but in the end we've just delivered them exactly what they've been looking for.  They just don't know it yet.

Yes, this is what I mean by great. However, remember, this is just a lowly credit card journal article by a lowly Nanjing bank staffer. It should not be used to predict real world events. The article is from october and we haven't heard anything more.

If a lowly bank staffer is thinking about it, I can only imagine the thoughts higher up.
legendary
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Let's put this in clearer English!  I hate it when google translate's crappy output makes me read more slowly. Tongue

Section 6. Recommendations
1. The government and central bank should acknowledge the existence of Bitcoin and deal with it proactively.  Using the top-notch supercomputers at its disposal and using state power to ensure a monopoly on mining power, the central bank could acquire the vast majority of bitcoins.
2. The central bank should set up a Bitcoin bank and an official Bitcoin exchange and become the middleman in Chinese Bitcoin transactions to eliminate Bitcoin's relative anonymity and ensure that Bitcoin commerce can be regulated.
3. The government should push for international acceptance of a Bitcoin-backed currency, establishing a non-sovereign monetary system, to challenge the supremacy of the US dollar and to make the international financial system more harmonious and stable.

Thanks for the clarification.

So they want to become the largest miner and control the bitcoin exchange/banking industry within China to deanonymize it.  This precedent may be followed by other countries, and we'll quickly come to a vastly more traceable system than we have today.  Sure, current bitcoiners all get rich, but the governments won't hurt one bit.  Yes, there will be winners and losers in the bitrush, but in the end we've just delivered them exactly what they've been looking for.  They just don't know it yet.

Yes, this is what I mean by great. However, remember, this is just a lowly credit card journal article by a lowly Nanjing bank staffer. It should not be used to predict real world events. The article is from october and we haven't heard anything more.
hero member
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Let's put this in clearer English!  I hate it when google translate's crappy output makes me read more slowly. Tongue

Section 6. Recommendations
1. The government and central bank should acknowledge the existence of Bitcoin and deal with it proactively.  Using the top-notch supercomputers at its disposal and using state power to ensure a monopoly on mining power, the central bank could acquire the vast majority of bitcoins.
2. The central bank should set up a Bitcoin bank and an official Bitcoin exchange and become the middleman in Chinese Bitcoin transactions to eliminate Bitcoin's relative anonymity and ensure that Bitcoin commerce can be regulated.
3. The government should push for international acceptance of a Bitcoin-backed currency, establishing a non-sovereign monetary system, to challenge the supremacy of the US dollar and to make the international financial system more harmonious and stable.

Thanks for the clarification.

So they want to become the largest miner and control the bitcoin exchange/banking industry within China to deanonymize it.  This precedent may be followed by other countries, and we'll quickly come to a vastly more traceable system than we have today.  Sure, current bitcoiners all get rich, but the governments won't hurt one bit.  Yes, there will be winners and losers in the bitrush, but in the end we've just delivered them exactly what they've been looking for.  They just don't know it yet.

They could offer us only a fraction of our holdings for *registered* versions.

Yeah, with all that mining power, they could do anything to us.
donator
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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.
Let's put this in clearer English!  I hate it when google translate's crappy output makes me read more slowly. Tongue

Section 6. Recommendations
1. The government and central bank should acknowledge the existence of Bitcoin and deal with it proactively.  Using the top-notch supercomputers at its disposal and using state power to ensure a monopoly on mining power, the central bank could acquire the vast majority of bitcoins.
2. The central bank should set up a Bitcoin bank and an official Bitcoin exchange and become the middleman in Chinese Bitcoin transactions to eliminate Bitcoin's relative anonymity and ensure that Bitcoin commerce can be regulated.
3. The government should push for international acceptance of a Bitcoin-backed currency, establishing a non-sovereign monetary system, to challenge the supremacy of the US dollar and to make the international financial system more harmonious and stable.

Thanks for the clarification.

So they want to become the largest miner and control the bitcoin exchange/banking industry within China to deanonymize it.  This precedent may be followed by other countries, and we'll quickly come to a vastly more traceable system than we have today.  Sure, current bitcoiners all get rich, but the governments won't hurt one bit.  Yes, there will be winners and losers in the bitrush, but in the end we've just delivered them exactly what they've been looking for.  They just don't know it yet.

They could offer us only a fraction of our holdings for *registered* versions.
legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1002
Let's put this in clearer English!  I hate it when google translate's crappy output makes me read more slowly. Tongue

Section 6. Recommendations
1. The government and central bank should acknowledge the existence of Bitcoin and deal with it proactively.  Using the top-notch supercomputers at its disposal and using state power to ensure a monopoly on mining power, the central bank could acquire the vast majority of bitcoins.
2. The central bank should set up a Bitcoin bank and an official Bitcoin exchange and become the middleman in Chinese Bitcoin transactions to eliminate Bitcoin's relative anonymity and ensure that Bitcoin commerce can be regulated.
3. The government should push for international acceptance of a Bitcoin-backed currency, establishing a non-sovereign monetary system, to challenge the supremacy of the US dollar and to make the international financial system more harmonious and stable.

Thanks for the clarification.

So they want to become the largest miner and control the bitcoin exchange/banking industry within China to deanonymize it.  This precedent may be followed by other countries, and we'll quickly come to a vastly more traceable system than we have today.  Sure, current bitcoiners all get rich, but the governments won't hurt one bit.  Yes, there will be winners and losers in the bitrush, but in the end we've just delivered them exactly what they've been looking for.  They just don't know it yet.
legendary
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The article was published in some lowly credit card journal. It is not like the people's daily. This is just the view of a staffer at the Nanjing branch of the PBC. It is extremely unlikely to lead to concrete action.
As for the translation, 'attack' is more correct than 'deal with it proactively'.

Reading more of the article. The author seems to suggest co-opting the technology rather than destroying it. Goals are for China to control most computing power and to create a bitcoin bank which 'deanonymizes'  the technology. Maybe the bank idea is to register all public keys with personal data, it is not laid out explicitly. The author proposes that governments issue bitcoin rather than permit anonymous entities to do so.

Sounds great! This is what I would do if I was a government.

What makes a government so wise and virtuous enough to be the only issuer of a currency?  What is wrong with anonymity?

Who said wise or virtuous? I'm just talking about self-interest. I prefer the co-opt choice to the destroy choice. I was pretty sure that they would go with destroy. It's great that they didn't. Especially given that trading bitcoin for cash or physical goods is already illegal in China.
newbie
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The article was published in some lowly credit card journal. It is not like the people's daily. This is just the view of a staffer at the Nanjing branch of the PBC. It is extremely unlikely to lead to concrete action.
As for the translation, 'attack' is more correct than 'deal with it proactively'.

Reading more of the article. The author seems to suggest co-opting the technology rather than destroying it. Goals are for China to control most computing power and to create a bitcoin bank which 'deanonymizes'  the technology. Maybe the bank idea is to register all public keys with personal data, it is not laid out explicitly. The author proposes that governments issue bitcoin rather than permit anonymous entities to do so.

Sounds great! This is what I would do if I was a government.

What makes a government so wise and virtuous enough to be the only issuer of a currency?  What is wrong with anonymity?

Doesn't really matter... the PBC does what it wants.
Yes, yes. I just want to know what is going in the head of this guy.
hero member
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bitcoin hundred-aire
The article was published in some lowly credit card journal. It is not like the people's daily. This is just the view of a staffer at the Nanjing branch of the PBC. It is extremely unlikely to lead to concrete action.
As for the translation, 'attack' is more correct than 'deal with it proactively'.

Reading more of the article. The author seems to suggest co-opting the technology rather than destroying it. Goals are for China to control most computing power and to create a bitcoin bank which 'deanonymizes'  the technology. Maybe the bank idea is to register all public keys with personal data, it is not laid out explicitly. The author proposes that governments issue bitcoin rather than permit anonymous entities to do so.

Sounds great! This is what I would do if I was a government.

What makes a government so wise and virtuous enough to be the only issuer of a currency?  What is wrong with anonymity?

Doesn't really matter... the PBC does what it wants.
newbie
Activity: 28
Merit: 0
The article was published in some lowly credit card journal. It is not like the people's daily. This is just the view of a staffer at the Nanjing branch of the PBC. It is extremely unlikely to lead to concrete action.
As for the translation, 'attack' is more correct than 'deal with it proactively'.

Reading more of the article. The author seems to suggest co-opting the technology rather than destroying it. Goals are for China to control most computing power and to create a bitcoin bank which 'deanonymizes'  the technology. Maybe the bank idea is to register all public keys with personal data, it is not laid out explicitly. The author proposes that governments issue bitcoin rather than permit anonymous entities to do so.

Sounds great! This is what I would do if I was a government.

What makes a government so wise and virtuous enough to be the only issuer of a currency?  What is wrong with anonymity?
hero member
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bitcoin hundred-aire
btw everyone, the title is "Bitcoin is potentially a great challenge to the US dollar," or something like that.
legendary
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The article was published in some lowly credit card journal. It is not like the people's daily. This is just the view of a staffer at the Nanjing branch of the PBC. It is extremely unlikely to lead to concrete action.
As for the translation, 'attack' is more correct than 'deal with it proactively'.

Reading more of the article. The author seems to suggest co-opting the technology rather than destroying it. Goals are for China to control most computing power and to create a bitcoin bank which 'deanonymizes'  the technology. Maybe the bank idea is to register all public keys with personal data, it is not laid out explicitly. The author proposes that governments issue bitcoin rather than permit anonymous entities to do so.

Sounds great! This is what I would do if I was a government.
newbie
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Very well researched paper for an outsider but he made 2 obvious mistakes:
1. He repeated stressed that Bitcoins offers total anonymity and is completely untraceable.
2. Failed to mention GPU mining and failed to realize that CPU mining, even with super computers, is not cost-effective.

It's clear that he has a good grasp of the economics behind Bitcoins, but he has little technical background.  
hero member
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Notice: "deal with it proactively" in the original Chinese: "出击."

出击 means "attack," according to Google Translate.
hero member
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Courtesy of Google translate:

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Six recommendations
1 Governments and central banks should face the existence of bit money, take the initiative, the use of the country's massive computing power, suppression of private mining power, the vast majority of money concentrated in the hands of the state bits.
(2) of setting up a bit coin banks, currency trading in the implementation of the middle bit body to eliminate the anonymity that it can be regulated.
3 bits of currency-based international joint issue credit currency, thus contributing to the establishment of non-sovereign monetary system. With this new international settlement currency to challenge the U.S. hegemony, the international financial system more harmonious and stable.

Let's put this in clearer English!  I hate it when google translate's crappy output makes me read more slowly. Tongue

Section 6. Recommendations
1. The government and central bank should acknowledge the existence of Bitcoin and deal with it proactively.  Using the top-notch supercomputers at its disposal and using state power to ensure a monopoly on mining power, the central bank could acquire the vast majority of bitcoins.
2. The central bank should set up a Bitcoin bank and an official Bitcoin exchange and become the middleman in Chinese Bitcoin transactions to eliminate Bitcoin's relative anonymity and ensure that Bitcoin commerce can be regulated.
3. The government should push for international acceptance of a Bitcoin-backed currency, establishing a non-sovereign monetary system, to challenge the supremacy of the US dollar and to make the international financial system more harmonious and stable.
hero member
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I wonder if "suppression of private mining power" is an accurate translation. I also wonder if he is suggesting an alternate block chain.
I think that's exact translation. And i bet he has no idea what alt chain is.
donator
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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.
Courtesy of Google translate:


 Six recommendations
1 Governments and central banks should face the existence of bit money, take the initiative, the use of the country's massive computing power, suppression of private mining power, the vast majority of money concentrated in the hands of the state bits.
(2) of setting up a bit coin banks, currency trading in the implementation of the middle bit body to eliminate the anonymity that it can be regulated.
3 bits of currency-based international joint issue credit currency, thus contributing to the establishment of non-sovereign monetary system. With this new international settlement currency to challenge the U.S. hegemony, the international financial system more harmonious and stable.

I wonder if "suppression of private mining power" is an accurate translation. I also wonder if he is suggesting an alternate block chain.
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