The devil is in the subordinate clause starting with while that hints at
the collateral damage of the utopia you sketch. The question is whether
transparency is a value per se. (I would argue: no, it's only a tool for
achieving other goals such as ethical conduct and social responsibility.)
it would not require very much ingenuity or computational
power to analyze all transactions associated to one Bitcoin wallet and,
from the frequencies, quantities and network of its transactions, deduce
the identity of its owner with practical certainty.
There's a distinction between wallets
Let me know if I'm wrong: one individual may own two or more bitcoin
wallets. And this individual may be a robot or a weird mixture of
flesh and silicon, let say a dog which constantly shift its
identities and deals its bitcoins with some high frequency trading
system. So, obviously cydogs will
I don't know how you figure bots will suck all the money. Bots are made by
humans necessarily, and I can assure you they are quite difficult to make
profitable (unless they directly steal).
The beauty of Bitcoin's complicated mining system is that it fixes the
quantity of money in circulation
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Doug La Rocca douglaro...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know how you figure bots will suck all the money. Bots are made by
humans necessarily, and I can assure you they are quite difficult to make
profitable (unless they directly steal).
I guess that as far as the
renewed text with a call, please feel free to spread and collaborate,
it is an opensource and libre project which takes the rise of the GNU
as an inspiration to it self. The target is the liberation and
opensourcing and transcending the entirr capitalist mode of
production. Let's free the