Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPS proposal for implementing AML-KYC in bitcoin

[odinn <odinn.cyberguerrilla@riseup.net>]

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Well,

On 08/27/2015 06:39 AM, prabhat via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Fine point.
> 
> So where is the solution? What to do?

You could study bitcoin some more and understand what it is instead of
proposing to "implement AML-KYC in bitcoin" which shows vast ignorance
about it.

That's probably what you should do.

> 
> Prabhat Kumar Singh
> 
> Prabhat Kumar Singh
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Gavin Andresen
> <gavinandresen@gmail.com <mailto:gavinandresen@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Have you talked with anybody at the Bitcoin Foundation about this 
> proposal?
> 
> As Chief Scientist of the Foundation, I am strongly opposed to any 
> proposal that puts the Foundation in a position of centralized 
> authority, so this is unacceptable: "The Bitcoin Foundation will
> act as fair play party and enforcement body to control the misuse
> of vast financial powers which bitcoin has."
> 
> The idea that a central organization can be trusted to keep
> secrets secure is just fundamentally wrong. In the very recent past
> we have seen government organizations fail in that task (the NSA,
> the OPM) and we see commercial organizations that SHOULD be highly
> motivated to do a good job also fail (e.g. the Ashley Madison
> leak).
> 
> Even if it were technically possible, I would be opposed because 
> decentralization is a bedrock principle of Bitcoin.
> 
> -- -- Gavin Andresen
> 
> 
> 
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