From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A689716D7 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 06:06:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from smtp2.hushmail.com (smtp2.hushmail.com [65.39.178.134]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E8BA126 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 06:06:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp2.hushmail.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.hushmail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id C2A4AA029F for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 06:06:39 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=hush.com; h=date:to:subject:from; s=hush; bh=yX0hCY2xL7PtpdRH10FVfNWYZ1aVwm0HHS8Wh6HN8kM=; b=Uwdf++jIyavTt8GYyCGTTLyAJUig/69egiq20f3MKHRupH3NZjllnZkKXzCHJYrTXCgLMhhISdkwkIUg88L1bzSIY43RJRbrpAjfzdVhmG4XEPHfSMiRQ+kGNwDE7/5U3adv7BBj3pcfyq0dDRuB2H/S319SReUj+J5+qrv/zoNgFNG6pxrBwCqgfWDHu9qeaS77eFAv67SQ68upa986Uz83Lx/Fmru97T8g+pY0UXu71e5N+c/xm/+IsmrTUYz9XVOAsLVfCAuv2SFnqSxx3rNVIhtP4X80KLVCy4qGSH8Kspe0vV8Cvm5ARTtvKmB7vUsRzhO44fkEOon+19nH5g== Received: from smtp.hushmail.com (w7.hushmail.com [65.39.178.32]) by smtp2.hushmail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 06:06:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.hushmail.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id A775A404B9; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 06:06:39 +0000 (UTC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 09:06:39 +0300 To: "Peter Todd" , "Matt Corallo" From: "NxtChg" In-Reply-To: <20150919014710.GD22598@muck> References: <55F9E47D.50507@mattcorallo.com> <55FC6EBF.9090504@mattcorallo.com> <20150919014710.GD22598@muck> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-Id: <20150919060639.A775A404B9@smtp.hushmail.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Scaling Bitcoin conference micro-report X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Development Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 06:06:41 -0000 >While to many of us that sounds crazy, if you're threat model assumes >Bitcoin is a legal/regulated service provided by a highly trusted mining >community it's a reasonable design. There is a large, grey area all the way to "legal/regulated service provided by a highly trusted mining community". Painting the worst looking picture is either a defect in thinking or intentional FUD. > Mike Hearn recently posted his threat model, which specifically argues we > should assume governments are not a threat. There are two ways to fight governments: 1. either you become too big to close, so political repercussions become unacceptable 2. or you become too tiny to hunt, in which case you are much better off with a specialized alt-coin, designed specifically for that purpose.