[Bitcoin-development] Something people are forgetting about the Gentoo / Luke-jr censorship issue

2014-10-10 Thread xor
Hey folks, FYI the issue is that Luke-Jr wants to include code which can censor stuff like SatoshiDice transactions because he thinks they are denial of service: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524512 While everyone is jumping on the neutrality Bitcoin should have, you're forgetting

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Something people are forgetting about the Gentoo / Luke-jr censorship issue

2014-10-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
The whole issue is a troll, and I'm afraid you got sucked in. There are no plans to add a blacklist to Bitcoin Core. -- Jeff Garzik Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Something people are forgetting about the Gentoo / Luke-jr censorship issue

2014-10-10 Thread Mike Hearn
I'm sure this suggestion will go down like a lead balloon, but Bitcoin Core is not the first project that's had issues with Linux distros silently modifying their software as they package it. In this case Luke has changed things to be closer to what users expect, which is good to see, but I expect

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Something people are forgetting about the Gentoo / Luke-jr censorship issue

2014-10-10 Thread Justus Ranvier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/10/2014 05:26 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: I'm sure this suggestion will go down like a lead balloon, but Bitcoin Core is not the first project that's had issues with Linux distros silently modifying their software as they package it. In this