"prima facie" generally means that in a court case the burden of proof shifts from one party to another. For instance, if you have a federal trademark registration that is prima fascia evidence of those rights even though they could still be challenged. To say a prosecutor would have prima fascia evidence of a crime because double spend was detected is quite a stretch.
On 6/19/2015 12:36 PM, Matt Whitlock wrote: > On Friday, 19 June 2015, at 3:53 pm, justusranv...@riseup.net wrote: >> I'd also like to note that "prima facie" doesn't mean "always", it means >> that "the default assumption, unless proven otherwise." > Why would you automatically assume fraud by default? Shouldn't the null > hypothesis be the default? Without any information one way or another, you > ought to make *no assumption* about the fraudulence or non-fraudulence of any > given double-spend. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
