>While to many of us that sounds crazy, if you're threat model assumes >Bitcoin is a legal/regulated service provided by a highly trusted mining >community it's a reasonable design.
There is a large, grey area all the way to "legal/regulated service provided by a highly trusted mining community". Painting the worst looking picture is either a defect in thinking or intentional FUD. > Mike Hearn recently posted his threat model, which specifically argues we > should assume governments are not a threat. There are two ways to fight governments: 1. either you become too big to close, so political repercussions become unacceptable 2. or you become too tiny to hunt, in which case you are much better off with a specialized alt-coin, designed specifically for that purpose. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
