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From: Milly Bitcoin <milly@bitcoins.info>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Scaling Bitcoin conference micro-report
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:02:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55FF2CF8.2010408@bitcoins.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ema20a20ae-62b0-483b-90d4-a2cded334b2f@platinum>

> Larger user base won't necessarily protect against governments if we
> still have chokepoints they can go after.


Bitcoin will always have chokepoints governments can go after.  Hackers 
already targeted routers to divert mining traffic awhile back.  Bitcoin 
traffic is easily seen and blocked by ISP's.  It has already been 
pointed out that laws against merchants and exchanges cannot be defended 
against any other way than to have many people use the system.  (As a 
developer you, of course, did not mention the threat of having a tiny 
number of developers who have significant influence over Bitcoin.  It 
always amazes me the endless discussion over miners centralization and 
almost zero discussion of developer decentralization.)

Increasing the nodes by a factor of 2 or 3 or keeping the block size 
small to increase the diversity of miners by a few percent will have 
zero effect if those other government threats were to actually happen.

Russ




  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-20 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-16 21:32 [bitcoin-dev] Scaling Bitcoin conference micro-report Jeff Garzik
2015-09-16 21:51 ` Matt Corallo
2015-09-18  5:55   ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-09-18 17:10     ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-18 17:28       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-18 20:06     ` Matt Corallo
2015-09-18 22:33       ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-19 16:03         ` cipher anthem
2015-09-19 20:43           ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-19  1:47       ` Peter Todd
2015-09-19  6:06         ` NxtChg
2015-09-19  6:56           ` Eric Voskuil
2015-09-19  7:27             ` NxtChg
2015-09-19  7:39               ` Eric Voskuil
2015-09-19  7:57                 ` NxtChg
2015-09-19  8:52                   ` Eric Voskuil
2015-09-19 13:32                     ` NxtChg
2015-09-19 20:57                     ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-19 21:53                       ` phm
2015-09-20  1:26                         ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-20  2:18                           ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-20  9:18                         ` NxtChg
2015-09-20  9:25                         ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-20 15:43                           ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-09-20 16:21                             ` NxtChg
2015-09-20 16:34                               ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-20 20:23                                 ` Steven Pine
2015-09-20 20:54                                   ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-20 21:33                                     ` s7r
2015-09-20 21:45                                       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-20 22:02                                         ` Milly Bitcoin [this message]
2015-09-20 22:21                                           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-20 22:51                                             ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-20 23:11                                               ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-21  0:11                                                 ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-21  5:04                                                   ` Corey Haddad
2015-09-21 11:45                                                     ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-21  8:48                                         ` NxtChg
2015-09-20 21:10                                   ` NxtChg
2015-09-20 21:13                                     ` Steven Pine
2015-09-20 21:34                                       ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-20 21:24                                     ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-20 21:16                                   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-21 10:30                             ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-18 22:15     ` [bitcoin-dev] Improving Blocksize Communication Through Markets Paul Sztorc
2015-09-20 11:41     ` Isidor Zeuner

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